Just to be clear.
You are creating a password file in the following format
username:password
Where `password` is the clear text version of the password?
If so this will be the problem. The password file needs to be generated
with the `mosquitto_passwd` file and should be of the following format
username:hashed_password.
You can do this with the mosquitto_passwd comand as follows
mosquitto_passed -b /etc/mosquitto/passwd usename password
The following is from the mosquitto.conf man page
> Set the path to a password file. If defined, the contents of the file are used to control client access to the broker. The file can be created using the mosquitto_passwd(1) utility. If mosquitto is compiled without TLS support (it is recommended that TLS
support is included), then the password file should be a text file with each line in the format "username:password", where the colon and password are optional but recommended
Note the second sentence is for is mosquitto is compiled **without**
TLS, the build in the container includes TLS support.
If this is not the case please give a lot more details about how the
password file is being generated and your mosquitto.conf (and any
additional file in the conf.d directory)
On 25/08/2024 04:26, Anthony Falzon III via mosquitto-dev wrote:
> Yes, the service is running, when I change the allow anonymous to yes it
> works.
>
> I ran
> chown mosquitto:mosquitto /etc/mosquitto/passwd
>
> After creating the passwd file, that should take care of file access. It
> also can write to the file because it's generating the auto password
> through your utility.
>
> I have tried a simplified password and that did not work either.
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* mosquitto-dev <mosquitto-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of
> Peter Rockett via mosquitto-dev <mosquitto-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Sent:* Saturday, August 24, 2024 3:30:33 AM
> *To:* mosquitto-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx <mosquitto-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Cc:* Peter Rockett <p.rockett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Subject:* Re: [mosquitto-dev] Authentication failure
>
> Is the mosquitto service actually running?
>
> As of mosquitto version 2.0.18 (at least), the passwd file requires read
> access for the ‘mosquitto’ user that is created when installing the
> software. Otherwise starting the mosquitto service fails. This is
> documented, but is easy to overlook.
>
> P.
>
>
> On 24/08/2024 03:31, Anthony Falzon III via mosquitto-dev wrote:
>> I am using tteks script to install mqtt as a docker LXC.
>>
>> Install went fine, created the passwd file, which generated:
>> <username>:<auto generated password>
>>
>> I am getting an authorization error when using the username or
>> password in that file.
>>
>> conf.d does point to that file. allow_anonymous is set to false. If I
>> change it to true and comment out my password/username I everything
>> works as expected.
>>
>>
>> I'm failing in Z2MQTT and Home Assistant.
>>
>>
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