Re: [mosquitto-dev] Dedicated user for Mosquitto

[Roger Light <roger@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Guy,

That's odd, it should have. What use owns the directory /var/lib/mosquitto/ ?

Cheers,

Roger

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Guy Dillen <guy.dillen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Roger,
>
> Thanks.
>
> I installed based on this http://mosquitto.org/?s=repository document.
> This creates no Œmosquitto² user. I suppose you meant some different way
> of installing? I suppose I still can change creating a user mosquito that
> runs the broker?
>
> Thanks.
> Guy
>
>
> On 25/07/14 18:43, "Roger Light" <roger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Hi Guy,
>>
>>The Debian packet is set up to create a "mosquitto" user for the
>>broker to run under, it should not be run as root ideally.
>>
>>I don't think there is any advantage to having your
>>publishers/subscribers running as the same user. It would be best to
>>isolate them except for their communication through the protocol.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Roger
>>
>>
>>On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Guy Dillen <guy.dillen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I installed the latest Mosquitto message broker (as root user) on my
>>>Linux
>>> (Debian and Raspbian) box. Everything works fine. I have a question: is
>>>it
>>> advisable to create a dedicated user e.g. Œmosquitto¹ as the user where
>>>all
>>> messages should be send too (published) and which all subscribers should
>>> use?  I haven¹t looked that far into Mosquitto: but is it possible to
>>>have
>>> restrictions on topic-level?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
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