[Question] Set username and password for brokerconnection

[Fabi1080]

Is there an easy way to start this container with an username and password for the broker connection configured? Let any security issues aside, i need that for testing. Thx.

[toke]

Hello @Fabi1080,

Kind of…
As you can provide an configuration you can add passwords too.

The easiest way to do this is running it with -v /srv/mqtt/config:/mqtt/config and place your config in /srv/mqtt/config/(mosquitto.conf)`

Just configure your ACL's and Passwords there. You can run mosquitto_passwd inside you container if you need hashed passwords.

A start would be (relevant part only):

allow_anonymous true

password_file /mqtt/config/mosquitto.passwd
acl_file /mqtt/config/mosquitto.acl

mosquitto.acl:

user toke
topic read #
topic readwrite devices/#
topic readwrite homie/#

[thunderkit]

@Fabi1080 @toke any of you please help. Created hashed password in container, but while writing it is throwing error as readonly, how to create a file and specify in password_file.

[koraysels]

I had the same problem. but just create a temporary passwd in dthe container and copy the value into your config. like this:

$ touch passwd
$ mosquitto_passwd -b passwd mosquitto test
$ cat passwd

then you will have your hashed password .. hope this helps!