How to configure an MQTT Mosquitto broker and enable user authentication on Windows

[Music] again so in one of my previous videos I already showed you how you can turn your SN 1200 or s7 1500 into n and qtt client but what I realized is I didn't really cover the broken part so I've made a very short video for you showing you how you can set up a mosquito broker on your Windows machine step-by-step okay so what we are going to do now we are going to install mosquito on a Windows machine and we make sure we are using a username and password or authentication this actually very simple we need to go to Google and look for mosquito the website is actually mosquito dog then you go to download sections find yourself the install file for 64-bit windows probably and takes a second to download this is done we start the file you run it you can close the browser in the meantime yeah and you just click through it we make sure it's running as a service let's just install it directly in C mosquito there you go mosquito is now installed we fire out the command line as the mini straighter we should be able to start the service now test fits running let's quickly crab also and mosquito client sorry mg TT client so MC DT Explorer is what I'm usually using it pretty is anything else windows installer again okay takes a second to install the download sorry then we started quickly yeah again run anyway that's fine it's all good you can close the browser mqtt Explorer is now installing for us they go there is already a Explorer let's try to connect to ourselves so local host on 1883 all right there you go there's your mosquito broker and running so there are two more things you wanted first we want to make sure that and no unauthorized access is allowed so we want to set some username and password for this we need to create ourselves a password file this is one way of doing things I'm going to quickly follow up notepad again this means 3 30 years I'm gonna now create a new user the user name is mqtt password will be i lost nothing and i'm gonna save this file in my install directory so here as password so i now have a file with clear text passwords and i can use a password utility and provide the with mosquito to encrypt the password is so all i need to do is i need to navigate to see the mosquito was it yeah and here i need to run this utility so mosquito password and my fire wars thing password yeah let's see if there's got created so what they should have done they should have converted my password file and encrypted the password itself so it's not clear text so that's done let's start the MGP explorer again okay and it created suppose the connections you just saved it I guess localhost localhost and the easier name was MQTT I'll of semantics like punch it correctly of course not save this comeback there you go add this words bad let's see if it works about it see what you got so we need to do something about the config file so if we go here again to the HPCC mosquito or wherever you insult your your broker there is a mosquito config file this file contains anything and everything that you might possibly want to do with your mosquito configuration so there is loads of flies that you can set up we are interested in two flags one is allow anonymous access and it's here so either want anonymous access and make sure that it's using the password file that that we actually specified so the password file because what happened before really was a just lock that says in as anonymous users password file and we are at see most Quito and then password or think was it okay it's just double check yeah see mosquito password keep messing with their these guys so let's now restart the service so let's stop key to start mosquito let's try a my name is taxes again I'm actually refused let's try username and password any works with it's fine' so that's exactly what we needed one last things we want to do is we kind of liked it what axes this thing from outside here so we are currently let's see what are we change the doctor options ROP is 0:15 so let's jump out of this VM and let's see if we can actually connect so it's called 15 191 6/8 of 0.15 and PTT I love somatic do you find that we can't the reason for this is the firewall is too blocking on connections so if we open up the firewall settings we need to create a new inbound rule and allow port 1883 on TCP to go through or any other port if you are using some some other code but by default impunity is 1883 that's enabled here let's check again and it's already connected to us so as you can see all good and you can browse all the top base we have full access to the server so this is guys ahead finally a mosquito broker [Music]

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Length: 7min 57sec (477 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 18 2020