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[Steven Luke <stevejluke@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, full paths worked, but had a limited set of folders to work in.
 For example, I had originally tried "C:\Program Files\mosquitto\
pwfile.example", and
"C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\mosquitto\pwfile.example" (both with
and without the quotes) and it didn't work.

I did end up getting it to work in C:\ProgramData\mosquitto\pwfile.example.
 So I suspect the paths accessible by Windows services are limited.  Still,
environment variables would be nice, so I could do
%ProgramData%\mosquitto\myapp.conf

Thanks,
Steve


On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Roger Light <roger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> I can't look at this until later, but I'd suggest using a complete
> path rather than using %APPDATA% for now. I'll see about fixing it so
> that the path can contain an environment variable for version 1.2,
> which should be available any day now.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Roger
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Steven Luke <stevejluke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I am trying to set up user authentication on my mosquitto server, so I
> > figured I would start with using the already provided password file.
> >
> > *** in the conf file ***
> > allow_anonymous false
> > password_file pwfile.example
> >
> >
> > This works when I run mosquitto from the command line:
> >
> > C:\Program Files\mosquitto>mosquitto -c mosquitto.conf
> >
> > When I launch mosquitto this way, I mosquitto starts and I need to log
> in to
> > subscribe or publish messages.  But when I try to start the Windows
> service
> > I get an error in the logs saying it can't find the password file.  The
> path
> > to the service points to the same directory as above.  I have tried
> changing
> > the path to %APPDATA%\mosquitto\pwfile.example and putting the file in
> > <User>\AppData\Roaming\mosquitto\ or <User>\AppData\Local\mosquitto\ but
> to
> > no avail.
> >
> > So, anyone know where I should put the password file to allow the Windows
> > Service to run?
> >
> > OS: Windows 7, and Windows Vista.  32 bit.  Mosquitto version 1.1.2.
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> > Steve
> >
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