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[Roger Light <roger@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Saurabh,

I'm afraid that there aren't currently any admin commands you can send
to the broker, but this sort of remote control feature is on the list
for a future version. You can force clients to disconnect by
connecting a new client that has the same client id as the one you
wish to disconnect. Assuming you are using authentication, I am sure
you could create a tool that would disable the account in question and
then kick the client by connecting a client with the same id.

I hope that helps,

Roger


On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:41 PM, saurabh patil
<saurabhpatil786@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want broker to disconnect a client on demand (as an admin command),
> Is there any mechanism with which we can force broker to break connection
> with a particular client. (May be I can send kind of signal to mosquitto
> process).
> I need this to employ security on my application to prevent (dos like)
> attacks from malicious clients.
>
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> Saurabh
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