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Mosquitto MQTT

Install

sudo apt install mosquitto mosquitto-clients mosquitto-dev

Disable

Stop and disable mosquitto server for now. Later start it using `runit' 

/etc/init.d/mosquitto stop
update-rc.d mosquitto disable
systemctl disable mosquitto
systemctl mask mosquitto

Setup

Private LAN

Create and edit local config 

vi /etc/mosquitto/conf.d/local.conf

Add the following 

listener 1883
allow_anonymous true
Public WAN

Create password file and add a user 

touch /etc/mosquitto/pwfile
mosquitto_passwd -b /etc/mosquitto/pwfile username password

Create and edit local config 

vi /etc/mosquitto/conf.d/local.conf

Add the following 

listener 8883
allow_anonymous false
password_file /etc/mosquitto/pwfile

certfile /etc/mosquitto/certs/cert.pem
cafile   /etc/mosquitto/certs/fullchain.pem
keyfile  /etc/mosquitto/certs/key.pem

Runit

#! /bin/bash
sleep 1

#LOG
exec 2>&1
ulimit -l unlimited
ulimit -i unlimited
ulimit -q unlimited
ulimit -n 8192
ulimit -aH

#RUN
mkdir -p /var/lib/mosquitto
chown -R mosquitto:mosquitto /var/lib/mosquitto
mkdir -p /var/log/mosquitto
chown -R mosquitto:mosquitto /var/log/mosquitto
mkdir -p /run/mosquitto
chown -R mosquitto:mosquitto /run/mosquitto
exec /usr/sbin/mosquitto -c

Test

Private LAN
mosquitto_sub -h 192.168.0.13 -t '#'
Public WAN
mosquitto_sub -v -h hostname.example.com -p 8883 -u username -P password -t '#'

The hostname must match the name in the TLS certificate.