Configure password authentication

Edit chart config

Change the chart's config to disable allow_anonymous by setting authentication to enabled.

auth:
  # -- By enabling this, `allow_anonymous` gets set to `false` in the mosquitto config.
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  enabled: true

Open the Mosquitto container shell and execute the following commands, one by one, in order:

cd /mosquitto/configinc
mosquitto_passwd -c passwordfile username
echo "password_file /mosquitto/configinc/passwordfile" > passwordconfig.conf

:::info These commands explained

Navigate to /mosquitto/configinc, the persistent storage location inside the container where the password files go
Create a password file. This is interactive. Change username to your username. It will ask you to input the password twice
Create a config file that points to the password file

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:::caution Restart chart

Restart the chart so Mosquitto loads the new configuration file.

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