Here's a log of my experience installing Mosquitto server on Ubuntu 14.04. Mostly, I followed the excellent walkthrough on the OwnTracks Broker page, with a few adjustments along the way.
First, the errors/issues:
- I started out right away with an
apt-get install mosquitto mosquitto-clients, and while that worked, the version in the Ubuntu repositories was lacking a number of features. For one thing, I couldn't the run mosquitto_passwd command at all...the command couldn't be found on my system. - I ended up visiting the mosquitto repositories online to figure out which version I actually needed for my system and downloading directly. The 'awk' command listd on the OwnTracks Broker page downloaded html content, and not a repository list
Get the repository key:
curl -O http://repo.mosquitto.org/debian/mosquitto-repo.gpg.key
Add the new key to my system:
sudo apt-key add mosquitto-repo.gpg.key
Remove the downloaded key file
rm mosquitto-repo.gpg.key
Switch to my machine's sources list folder:
cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
This didn't work for me:
sudo curl -O http://repo.mosquitto.org/debian/mosquitto-$(awk -F"[)(]+" '/VERSION=/ {print $2}' /etc/os-release).list
Instead, I visited http://repo.mosquitto.org/debian with a browser and found that http://repo.mosquitto.org/debian/mosquitto-wheezy.list was the file I wanted. So this worked:
sudo curl -O http://repo.mosquitto.org/debian/mosquitto-wheezy.list
Then, update and install:
apt-get update && apt-get install mosquitto mosquitto-clients
Now, users can be added to a custom password file (remove the "-c" for additional users, or it will overwrite the file:
sudo mosquitto_passwd -c /etc/mosquitto/passwd [user]