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Re: Listener / mount points bound to auth user

 

Hi Stefano,

It's an interesting idea, feel free to submit it as a bug report. You
can already achieve it to a limited degree by using a mount point on a
listener that doesn't allow anonymous connections.

Cheers,

Roger


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Stefano Costa <stefano.costa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think that an option for the broker would be useful: when a client
> connects with auth (any kind of), a specific mount point is optionally added
> to the topic name (both sub and pub). This way I'm able to group together
> users (perhaps multitudes of clients having the same identity) exactly the
> same way I can now for listeners.
>
> As an example, this would be useful when a broker is being used for classes
> of devices and I don't want to proliferate public FQDNs / IPs or reserve new
> ports as new classes are added.
>
> What do you think?
>
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