004 | Setting up Username & Password Authentication for Mosquitto MQTT Broker | MQTT |

🧑‍💻In this video we will see how to set Username and Password Authentication for your local mosquitto broker. So any subscriber or publisher must need username and password for read & write access to any MQTT topics.

👣Steps :
➡️ Run cmd As Administrator
➡️ Nevigate to mosquitto Folder : C:\Program Files\mosquitto

➡️ Start Mosquitto Service by : net start mosquitto
➡️ Stop Mosquitto Service by :net stop mosquitto

👣METHOD1: (For More Details : https://mosquitto.org/man/mosquitto_passwd-1.html)
➡️ mosquitto_passwd -c passwordfile username
➡️ mosquitto_passwd -c password_file.txt root

👣METHOD2: (For More Details : https://mosquitto.org/man/mosquitto_passwd-1.html)
➡️ mosquitto_passwd -b passwordfile username password
➡️ mosquitto_passwd -b password_file.txt admin admin@123

👣Steps to Delete User
➡️ mosquitto_passwd -D passwordfile username
➡️ mosquitto_passwd -D password_file.txt admin

👣Steps to Change Config File
➡️ per_listener_settings true
➡️ allow_anonymous false
➡️ password_file C:\Program Files\mosquitto\password_file.txt

⚠️Mosquitto Version in Use : Version 2.0.8

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