HARTING MICA: Alpine Linux and another MQTT Container with Certificate and TLS/SSL

RE: HARTING MICA: Alpine Linux and another MQTT Container with Certificate and TLS/SSL

DAB — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 20:22:08 GMT

Good post Jan.

DAB

RE: HARTING MICA: Alpine Linux and another MQTT Container with Certificate and TLS/SSL

Jan Cumps — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:40:40 GMT

Next exercise: How to Bridge Mosquitto MQTT Broker to AWS IoT.

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RE: HARTING MICA: Alpine Linux and another MQTT Container with Certificate and TLS/SSL

Jan Cumps — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 18:39:13 GMT

Follow up on running as non-root:

The mosquitto install has created a user mosquitto - good start.

So just edit the /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf file, and uncomment :

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Once you restart the server, the service script drops the privilege from root to the mosquitto user when starting the daemon.

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Voila