@brief password used for cluster-internal communication `--cluster.password password` The password used for authorization of cluster-internal requests. This password will be used to authenticate all requests and responses in cluster-internal communication, i.e. requests exchanged between coordinators and individual database servers. This option is used for cluster-internal requests only. Regular requests to coordinators are authenticated normally using the data in the `_users` collection. If coordinators and database servers are run with authentication turned off, (e.g. by setting the *--server.authentication* option to *false*), the cluster-internal communication will also be unauthenticated.