APUE Learning Example Source Code
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2019-06-26 157be0b0d4c7d4809cfcafc76235cc18388378c8
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="manpage.xsl"?>
 
<refentry xml:id="mosquitto.conf" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
    <refmeta>
        <refentrytitle>mosquitto.conf</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
        <refmiscinfo class="source">Mosquitto Project</refmiscinfo>
        <refmiscinfo class="manual">File formats and conventions</refmiscinfo>
    </refmeta>
 
    <refnamediv>
        <refname>mosquitto.conf</refname>
        <refpurpose>the configuration file for mosquitto</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
 
    <refsynopsisdiv>
        <cmdsynopsis>
            <command>mosquitto.conf</command>
        </cmdsynopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>
 
    <refsect1>
        <title>Description</title>
        <para><command>mosquitto.conf</command> is the configuration file for
        mosquitto. This file can reside anywhere as long as mosquitto can read
        it. By default, mosquitto does not need a configuration file and will
        use the default values listed below. See
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mosquitto</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
        for information on how to load a configuration file.</para>
    </refsect1>
 
    <refsect1>
        <title>File Format</title>
        <para>All lines with a # as the very first character are treated as a
        comment.</para>
        <para>Configuration lines start with a variable name. The variable
        value is separated from the name by a single space.</para>
    </refsect1>
 
    <refsect1>
        <title>Authentication</title>
        <para>The authentication options described below allow a wide range of
            possibilities in conjunction with the listener options. This
            section aims to clarify the possibilities.</para>
        <para>The simplest option is to have no authentication at all. This is
            the default if no other options are given. Unauthenticated
            encrypted support is provided by using the certificate based
            SSL/TLS based options cafile/capath, certfile and keyfile.</para>
        <para>MQTT provides username/password authentication as part of the
            protocol. Use the password_file option to define the valid
            usernames and passwords. Be sure to use network encryption if you
            are using this option otherwise the username and password will be
            vulnerable to interception. Use the
            <option>per_listener_settings</option> to control whether passwords
            are required globally or on a per-listener basis.</para>
        <para>When using certificate based encryption there are three options
            that affect authentication. The first is require_certificate, which
            may be set to true or false. If false, the SSL/TLS component of the
            client will verify the server but there is no requirement for the
            client to provide anything for the server: authentication is
            limited to the MQTT built in username/password. If
            require_certificate is true, the client must provide a valid
            certificate in order to connect successfully. In this case, the
            second and third options, use_identity_as_username and
            use_subject_as_username, become relevant. If set to true,
            use_identity_as_username causes the Common Name (CN) from the
            client certificate to be used instead of the MQTT username for
            access control purposes. The password is not used because it is
            assumed that only authenticated clients have valid certificates.
            This means that any CA certificates you include in cafile or capath
            will be able to issue client certificates that are valid for
            connecting to your broker. If use_identity_as_username is false,
            the client must authenticate as normal (if required by
            password_file) through the MQTT options. The same principle applies
            for the use_subject_as_username option, but the entire certificate
            subject is used as the username instead of just the CN.</para>
        <para>When using pre-shared-key based encryption through the psk_hint
            and psk_file options, the client must provide a valid identity and
            key in order to connect to the broker before any MQTT communication
            takes place. If use_identity_as_username is true, the PSK identity
            is used instead of the MQTT username for access control purposes.
            If use_identity_as_username is false, the client may still
            authenticate using the MQTT username/password if using the
            password_file option.</para>
        <para>Both certificate and PSK based encryption are configured on a
            per-listener basis.</para>
        <para>Authentication plugins can be created to augment the
            password_file, acl_file and psk_file options with e.g. SQL based
            lookups.</para>
        <para>It is possible to support multiple authentication schemes at
            once. A config could be created that had a listener for all of the
            different encryption options described above and hence a large
            number of ways of authenticating.</para>
    </refsect1>
 
    <refsect1>
        <title>General Options</title>
        <variablelist>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>acl_file</option> <replaceable>file path</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Set the path to an access control list file. If
                        defined, the contents of the file are used to control
                        client access to topics on the broker.</para>
                    <para>If this parameter is defined then only the topics
                        listed will have access. Topic access is added with
                        lines of the format:</para>
 
                    <para><code>topic [read|write|readwrite] &lt;topic&gt;</code></para>
 
                    <para>The access type is controlled using "read", "write" or
                        "readwrite". This parameter is optional (unless
                        &lt;topic&gt; includes a space character) - if not
                        given then the access is read/write.  &lt;topic&gt; can
                        contain the + or # wildcards as in
                        subscriptions.</para>
 
                    <para>The first set of topics are applied to anonymous
                        clients, assuming <option>allow_anonymous</option> is
                        true. User specific topic ACLs are added after a user
                        line as follows:</para>
 
                    <para><code>user &lt;username&gt;</code></para>
 
                    <para>The username referred to here is the same as in
                        <option>password_file</option>. It is not the
                        clientid.</para>
 
                    <para>It is also possible to define ACLs based on pattern
                        substitution within the topic. The form is the same as
                        for the topic keyword, but using pattern as the
                        keyword.</para>
                    <para><code>pattern [read|write|readwrite] &lt;topic&gt;</code></para>
                    
                    <para>The patterns available for substition are:</para>
                    <itemizedlist mark="circle">
                        <listitem><para>%c to match the client id of the client</para></listitem>
                        <listitem><para>%u to match the username of the client</para></listitem>
                    </itemizedlist>
                    <para>The substitution pattern must be the only text for
                        that level of hierarchy. Pattern ACLs apply to all
                        users even if the "user" keyword has previously been
                        given.</para>
 
                    <para>Example:</para>
                    <para><code>pattern write sensor/%u/data</code></para>
                    <para>Allow access for bridge connection messages:</para>
                    <para><code>pattern write $SYS/broker/connection/%c/state</code></para>
 
                    <para>If the first character of a line of the ACL file is a
                        # it is treated as a comment.</para>
 
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal. The currently loaded ACLs
                        will be freed and reloaded. Existing subscriptions will
                        be affected after the reload.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>allow_anonymous</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Boolean value that determines whether clients that
                        connect without providing a username are allowed to
                        connect. If set to <replaceable>false</replaceable>
                        then another means of connection should be created to
                        control authenticated client access.</para>
                    <para>Defaults to <replaceable>true</replaceable> if no
                        other security options are set. If <option>password_file</option>
                        or <option>psk_file</option> is set, or if an
                        authentication plugin is loaded which implements
                        username/password or TLS-PSK checks, then
                        <option>allow_anonymous</option> defaults to
                        <replaceable>false</replaceable>.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>allow_duplicate_messages</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>If a client is subscribed to multiple subscriptions
                        that overlap, e.g. foo/# and foo/+/baz , then MQTT
                        expects that when the broker receives a message on a
                        topic that matches both subscriptions, such as
                        foo/bar/baz, then the client should only receive the
                        message once.</para>
                    <para>Mosquitto keeps track of which clients a message has
                        been sent to in order to meet this requirement. This
                        option allows this behaviour to be disabled, which may
                        be useful if you have a large number of clients
                        subscribed to the same set of topics and want to
                        minimise memory usage.</para>
                    <para>It can be safely set to
                        <replaceable>true</replaceable> if you know in advance
                        that your clients will never have overlapping
                        subscriptions, otherwise your clients must be able to
                        correctly deal with duplicate messages even when then
                        have QoS=2.</para>
                    <para>Defaults to <replaceable>true</replaceable>.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>allow_zero_length_clientid</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>MQTT 3.1.1 allows clients to connect with a zero
                        length client id and have the broker generate a client
                        id for them. Use this option to allow/disallow this
                        behaviour. Defaults to true.</para>
                    <para>See also the <option>auto_id_prefix</option> option.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>auth_opt_*</option> <replaceable>value</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Options to be passed to the auth plugin. See the
                        specific plugin instructions.  </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>auth_plugin</option> <replaceable>file path</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Specify an external module to use for authentication
                        and access control. This allows custom
                        username/password and access control functions to be
                        created.</para>
                    <para>Can be specified multiple times to load multiple
                        plugins. The plugins will be processed in the order
                        that they are specified.</para>
                    <para>If <option>password_file</option>, or
                        <option>acl_file</option> are used in the config file
                        alongsize <option>auth_plugin</option>, the plugin
                        checks will run after the built in checks.</para>
                    <para>Not currently reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>auth_plugin_deny_special_chars</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>If <replaceable>true</replaceable> then before an ACL
                        check is made, the username/client id of the client
                        needing the check is searched for the presence of
                        either a '+' or '#' character. If either of these
                        characters is found in either the username or client
                        id, then the ACL check is denied before it is sent to
                        the plugin.</para>
                    <para>This check prevents the case where a malicious user
                        could circumvent an ACL check by using one of these
                        characters as their username or client id. This is the
                        same issue as was reported with mosquitto itself as
                        CVE-2017-7650.</para>
                    <para>If you are entirely sure that the plugin you are
                        using is not vulnerable to this attack (i.e. if you
                        never use usernames or client ids in topics) then you
                        can disable this extra check and hence have all ACL
                        checks delivered to your plugin by setting this option
                        to <replaceable>false</replaceable>.</para>
                    <para>Defaults to <replaceable>true</replaceable>.</para>
                    <para>Not currently reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>auto_id_prefix</option> <replaceable>prefix</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>If <option>allow_zero_length_clientid</option> is
                        <replaceable>true</replaceable>, this option allows you
                        to set a string that will be prefixed to the
                        automatically generated client ids to aid visibility in
                        logs. Defaults to <option>auto-</option>.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>autosave_interval</option> <replaceable>seconds</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>The number of seconds that mosquitto will wait
                        between each time it saves the in-memory database to
                        disk. If set to 0, the in-memory database will only be
                        saved when mosquitto exits or when receiving the
                        SIGUSR1 signal. Note that this setting only has an
                        effect if persistence is enabled.  Defaults to 1800
                        seconds (30 minutes).</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>autosave_on_changes</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>If <replaceable>true</replaceable>, mosquitto will
                        count the number of subscription changes, retained
                        messages received and queued messages and if the total
                        exceeds <option>autosave_interval</option> then the
                        in-memory database will be saved to disk. If
                        <replaceable>false</replaceable>, mosquitto will save
                        the in-memory database to disk by treating
                        <option>autosave_interval</option> as a time in
                        seconds.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>check_retain_source</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>This option affects the scenario when a client
                        subscribes to a topic that has retained messages. It is
                        possible that the client that published the retained
                        message to the topic had access at the time they
                        published, but that access has been subsequently
                        removed. If <option>check_retain_source</option> is set
                        to true, the default, the source of a retained message
                        will be checked for access rights before it is
                        republished. When set to false, no check will be made
                        and the retained message will always be
                        published.</para>
                    <para>This option applies globally, regardless of the
                        <option>per_listener_settings</option> option.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>clientid_prefixes</option> <replaceable>prefix</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>If defined, only clients that have a clientid with a
                        prefix that matches clientid_prefixes will be allowed
                        to connect to the broker. For example, setting
                        "secure-" here would mean a client "secure-client"
                        could connect but another with clientid "mqtt"
                        couldn't. By default, all client ids are valid.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal. Note that currently
                        connected clients will be unaffected by any
                        changes.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>connection_messages</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>If set to <replaceable>true</replaceable>, the log
                        will include entries when clients connect and
                        disconnect. If set to <replaceable>false</replaceable>,
                        these entries will not appear.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>include_dir</option> <replaceable>dir</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>External configuration files may be included by using
                        the include_dir option. This defines a directory that
                        will be searched for config files. All files that end
                        in '.conf' will be loaded as a configuration file. It
                        is best to have this as the last option in the main
                        file. This option will only be processed from the main
                        configuration file. The directory specified must not
                        contain the main configuration file.</para>
                    <para>The configuration files in
                        <option>include_dir</option> are loaded in case
                        sensitive alphabetical order, with the upper case of
                        each letter ordered before the lower case of the same
                        letter.</para>
                        <example title="Load Order for include_dir" label="Load Order for include_dir">
                            <para>Given the files
                                <replaceable>b.conf</replaceable>,
                                <replaceable>A.conf</replaceable>,
                                <replaceable>01.conf</replaceable>,
                                <replaceable>a.conf</replaceable>,
                                <replaceable>B.conf</replaceable>, and
                                <replaceable>00.conf</replaceable> inside
                                <option>include_dir</option>, the config files
                                would be loaded in this order:</para>
                        <programlisting language="config">
00.conf
01.conf
A.conf
a.conf
B.conf
b.conf
</programlisting></example>
                    <para>If this option is used multiple times, then each
                        <option>include_dir</option> option is processed
                        completely in the order that they are written in the
                        main configuration file.</para>
                        <example title="Load Order for Multiple include_dir" label="Load Order for Multiple include_dir">
                            <para>Assuming a directory
                                <replaceable>one.d</replaceable> containing
                                files <replaceable>B.conf</replaceable> and
                                <replaceable>C.conf</replaceable>, and a second
                                directory <replaceable>two.d</replaceable>
                                containing files
                                <replaceable>A.conf</replaceable> and
                                <replaceable>D.conf</replaceable>, and a
                                config:</para>
                        <programlisting language="config">
include_dir one.d
include_dir two.d
</programlisting><para>Then the config files would be loaded in this order:</para>
                        <programlisting language="config">
# files from one.d
B.conf
C.conf
# files from two.d
A.conf
D.conf
</programlisting></example>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>log_dest</option> <replaceable>destinations</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Send log messages to a particular destination.
                        Possible destinations are: <option>stdout</option>
                        <option>stderr</option> <option>syslog</option>
                        <option>topic</option>.</para>
                    <para><option>stdout</option> and
                        <option>stderr</option> log to the console on the
                        named output.</para>
                    <para><option>syslog</option> uses the userspace syslog
                        facility which usually ends up in /var/log/messages or
                        similar and topic logs to the broker topic
                        '$SYS/broker/log/&lt;severity&gt;', where severity is
                        one of D, E, W, N, I, M which are debug, error,
                        warning, notice, information and message. Message type
                        severity is used by the subscribe and unsubscribe
                        log_type options and publishes log messages at
                        $SYS/broker/log/M/subscribe and
                        $SYS/broker/log/M/unsubscribe.</para>
                    <para>The <option>file</option> destination requires an
                        additional parameter which is the file to be logged to,
                        e.g. "log_dest file /var/log/mosquitto.log". The file
                        will be closed and reopened when the broker receives a
                        HUP signal. Only a single file destination may be
                        configured.</para>
                    <para>Use "log_dest none" if you wish to disable logging.
                        Defaults to stderr. This option may be specified
                        multiple times.</para>
                    <para>Note that if the broker is running as a Windows
                        service it will default to "log_dest none" and neither
                        stdout nor stderr logging is available.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>log_facility</option> <replaceable>local facility</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>If using syslog logging (not on Windows), messages
                        will be logged to the "daemon" facility by default. Use
                        the <option>log_facility</option> option to choose
                        which of local0 to local7 to log to instead. The option
                        value should be an integer value, e.g. "log_facility 5"
                        to use local5.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>log_timestamp</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Boolean value, if set to
                        <replaceable>true</replaceable> a timestamp value will
                        be added to each log entry. The default is
                        <replaceable>true</replaceable>.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>log_timestamp_format</option> <replaceable>format</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Set the format of the log timestamp. If left unset,
                        this is the number of seconds since the Unix epoch.
                        This option is a free text string which will be passed
                        to the strftime function as the format specifier. To
                        get an ISO 8601 datetime, for example:</para>
                    <programlisting language="config">
log_timestamp_format %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S
                    </programlisting>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
 
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>log_type</option> <replaceable>types</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Choose types of messages to log. Possible types are:
                        <replaceable>debug</replaceable>,
                        <replaceable>error</replaceable>,
                        <replaceable>warning</replaceable>,
                        <replaceable>notice</replaceable>,
                        <replaceable>information</replaceable>,
                        <replaceable>subscribe</replaceable>,
                        <replaceable>unsubscribe</replaceable>,
                        <replaceable>websockets</replaceable>,
                        <replaceable>none</replaceable>,
                        <replaceable>all</replaceable>.</para>
                    <para>Defaults to <replaceable>error</replaceable>,
                        <replaceable>warning</replaceable>, <replaceable>notice
                        </replaceable>and
                        <replaceable>information</replaceable>.  This option
                        may be specified multiple times. Note that the
                        <replaceable>debug </replaceable>type (used for
                        decoding incoming/outgoing network packets) is never
                        logged in topics.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>max_inflight_bytes</option> <replaceable>count</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>QoS 1 and 2 messages will be allowed in flight until this byte
                                            limit is reached.  Defaults to 0. (No limit)
                                            See also the <option>max_inflight_messages</option> option.
                                        </para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>max_inflight_messages</option> <replaceable>count</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>The maximum number of QoS 1 or 2 messages that can be
                        in the process of being transmitted simultaneously.
                        This includes messages currently going through
                        handshakes and messages that are being retried.
                        Defaults to 20. Set to 0 for no maximum. If set to 1,
                        this will guarantee in-order delivery of
                        messages.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>max_keepalive</option> <replaceable>value</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>For MQTT v5 clients, it is possible to have the
                        server send a "server keepalive" value that will
                        override the keepalive value set by the client.  This
                        is intended to be used as a mechanism to say that the
                        server will disconnect the client earlier than it
                        anticipated, and that the client should use the new
                        keepalive value. The max_keepalive option allows you to
                        specify that clients may only connect with keepalive
                        less than or equal to this value, otherwise they will
                        be sent a server keepalive telling them to use
                        max_keepalive. This only applies to MQTT v5 clients.
                        The maximum value allowable, and default value, is
                        65535. Do not set below 10 seconds.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>max_packet_size</option> <replaceable>value</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>For MQTT v5 clients, it is possible to have the
                        server send a "maximum packet size" value that will
                        instruct the client it will not accept MQTT packets
                        with size greater than <option>value</option> bytes.
                        This applies to the full MQTT packet, not just the
                        payload. Setting this option to a positive value will
                        set the maximum packet size to that number of bytes. If
                        a client sends a packet which is larger than this
                        value, it will be disconnected. This applies to all
                        clients regardless of the protocol version they are
                        using, but v3.1.1 and earlier clients will of course
                        not have received the maximum packet size information.
                        Defaults to no limit.</para>
                    <para>Setting below 20 bytes is forbidden because it is
                        likely to interfere with normal client operation even
                        with small payloads.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>max_queued_bytes</option> <replaceable>count</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>QoS 1 and 2 messages above those currently in-flight will be
                        queued (per client) until this limit is exceeded.
                        Defaults to 0. (No maximum) See also the
                        <option>max_queued_messages</option> option.
                        If both max_queued_messages and max_queued_bytes are specified,
                        packets will  be queued until the first limit is reached.
                    </para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>max_queued_messages</option> <replaceable>count</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>The maximum number of QoS 1 or 2 messages to hold in the
                        queue (per client) above those messages that are currently
                        in flight. Defaults to 100. Set to 0 for no maximum (not
                        recommended). See also the
                        <option>queue_qos0_messages</option> and
                        <option>max_queued_bytes</option> options.
                                        </para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>memory_limit</option> <replaceable>limit</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        This option sets the maximum number of heap memory bytes that the broker
                        will allocate, and hence sets a hard limit on memory use by the broker.
                        Memory requests that exceed this value will be denied. The effect will
                        vary depending on what has been denied. If an incoming message is being
                        processed, then the message will be dropped and the publishing client
                        will be disconnected. If an outgoing message is being sent, then the
                        individual message will be dropped and the receiving client will be
                        disconnected. Defaults to no limit.</para>
                    <para>This option is only available if memory tracking support is compiled
                        in.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal. Setting to a lower value and reloading will
                        not result in memory being freed.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>message_size_limit</option> <replaceable>limit</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>This option sets the maximum publish payload size
                        that the broker will allow. Received messages that
                        exceed this size will not be accepted by the broker.
                        The default value is 0, which means that all valid MQTT
                        messages are accepted. MQTT imposes a maximum payload
                        size of 268435455 bytes.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>password_file</option> <replaceable>file path</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Set the path to a password file. If defined, the
                        contents of the file are used to control client access
                        to the broker. The file can be created using the
                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mosquitto_passwd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                        utility. If mosquitto is compiled without TLS support
                        (it is recommended that TLS support is included), then
                        the password file should be a text file with each line
                        in the format "username:password", where the colon and
                        password are optional but recommended. If
                        <option>allow_anonymous</option> is set to
                        <replaceable>false</replaceable>, only users defined in
                        this file will be able to connect. Setting
                        <option>allow_anonymous</option> to
                        <replaceable>true</replaceable> when
                        <replaceable>password_file</replaceable>is defined is
                        valid and could be used with acl_file to have e.g. read
                        only guest/anonymous accounts and defined users that
                        can publish.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal. The currently loaded
                        username and password data will be freed and reloaded.
                        Clients that are already connected will not be
                        affected.</para>
                    <para>See also
                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mosquitto_passwd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>per_listener_settings</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>If <replaceable>true</replaceable>, then
                        authentication and access control settings will be
                        controlled on a per-listener basis. The following
                        options are affected:</para>
                    <para><option>password_file</option>,
                        <option>acl_file</option>, <option>psk_file</option>,
                        <option>allow_anonymous</option>,
                        <option>allow_zero_length_clientid</option>,
                        <option>auth_plugin</option>,
                        <option>auth_opt_*</option>,
                        <option>auto_id_prefix</option>.</para>
                    <para>Note that if set to true, then a durable client (i.e.
                        with clean session set to false) that has disconnected
                        will use the ACL settings defined for the listener that
                        it was most recently connected to.</para>
                    <para>The default behaviour is for this to be set to
                        <replaceable>false</replaceable>, which maintains the
                        settings behaviour from previous versions of
                        mosquitto.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>persistence</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>If <replaceable>true</replaceable>, connection,
                        subscription and message data will be written to the
                        disk in mosquitto.db at the location dictated by
                        persistence_location. When mosquitto is restarted, it
                        will reload the information stored in mosquitto.db. The
                        data will be written to disk when mosquitto closes and
                        also at periodic intervals as defined by
                        autosave_interval. Writing of the persistence database
                        may also be forced by sending mosquitto the SIGUSR1
                        signal. If <replaceable>false</replaceable>, the data
                        will be stored in memory only. Defaults to
                        <replaceable>false</replaceable>.</para>
                    <para>The persistence file may change its format in a new
                        version. The broker can currently read all old formats,
                        but will only save in the latest format. It should always
                        be safe to upgrade, but cautious users may wish to take a
                        copy of the persistence file before installing a new
                        version so that they can roll back to an earlier version
                        if necessary.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>persistence_file</option> <replaceable>file name</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>The filename to use for the persistent database.
                        Defaults to mosquitto.db.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>persistence_location</option> <replaceable>path</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>The path where the persistence database should be
                        stored. Must end in a trailing slash. If not given,
                        then the current directory is used.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>persistent_client_expiration</option> <replaceable>duration</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>This option allows persistent clients (those with
                        clean session set to false) to be removed if they do
                        not reconnect within a certain time frame. This is a
                        non-standard option. As far as the MQTT spec is
                        concerned, persistent clients persist forever.</para>
                    <para>Badly designed clients may set clean session to false
                        whilst using a randomly generated client id. This leads
                        to persistent clients that will never reconnect. This
                        option allows these clients to be removed.</para>
                    <para>The expiration period should be an integer followed
                        by one of h d w m y for hour, day, week, month and year
                        respectively. For example:</para>
                    <itemizedlist mark="circle">
                        <listitem><para>persistent_client_expiration 2m</para></listitem>
                        <listitem><para>persistent_client_expiration 14d</para></listitem>
                        <listitem><para>persistent_client_expiration 1y</para></listitem>
                    </itemizedlist>
                    <para>As this is a non-standard option, the default if not
                        set is to never expire persistent clients.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>pid_file</option> <replaceable>file path</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Write a pid file to the file specified. If not given
                        (the default), no pid file will be written. If the pid
                        file cannot be written, mosquitto will exit. This
                        option only has an effect is mosquitto is run in daemon
                        mode.</para>
                    <para>If mosquitto is being automatically started by an
                        init script it will usually be required to write a pid
                        file. This should then be configured as e.g.
                        /var/run/mosquitto.pid</para>
                    <para>Not reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>psk_file</option> <replaceable>file path</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Set the path to a pre-shared-key file. This option
                        requires a listener to be have PSK support enabled. If
                        defined, the contents of the file are used to control
                        client access to the broker. Each line should be in the
                        format "identity:key", where the key is a hexadecimal
                        string with no leading "0x". A client connecting to a
                        listener that has PSK support enabled must provide a
                        matching identity and PSK to allow the encrypted
                        connection to proceed.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal. The currently loaded
                        identity and key data will be freed and reloaded.
                        Clients that are already connected will not be
                        affected.</para>
                </listitem> </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>queue_qos0_messages</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Set to <replaceable>true</replaceable> to queue
                        messages with QoS 0 when a persistent client is
                        disconnected. These messages are included in the limit
                        imposed by max_queued_messages.  Defaults to
                        <replaceable>false</replaceable>.</para>
                    <para>Note that the MQTT v3.1.1 spec states that only QoS 1
                        and 2 messages should be saved in this situation so
                        this is a non-standard option.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>retain_available</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>If set to false, then retained messages are not
                        supported. Clients that send a message with the retain
                        bit will be disconnected if this option is set to
                        false. Defaults to true.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>retained_persistence</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>This is a synonym of the <option>persistence</option>
                        option.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>set_tcp_nodelay</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>If set to true, the TCP_NODELAY option will be set on
                            client sockets to disable Nagle's algorithm. This
                            has the effect of reducing latency of some messages
                            at potentially increasing the number of TCP packets
                            being sent. Defaults to false.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>sys_interval</option> <replaceable>seconds</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>The integer number of seconds between updates of the
                        $SYS subscription hierarchy, which provides status
                        information about the broker. If unset, defaults to 10
                        seconds.</para>
                    <para>Set to 0 to disable publishing the $SYS hierarchy
                        completely.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>upgrade_outgoing_qos</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>The MQTT specification requires that the QoS of a
                        message delivered to a subscriber is never upgraded to
                        match the QoS of the subscription. Enabling this option
                        changes this behaviour. If
                        <option>upgrade_outgoing_qos</option> is set
                        <replaceable>true</replaceable>, messages sent to a
                        subscriber will always match the QoS of its
                        subscription. This is a non-standard option not
                        provided for by the spec. Defaults to
                        <replaceable>false</replaceable>.</para>
                    <para>Reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>user</option> <replaceable>username</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>When run as root, change to this user and its primary
                        group on startup.  If mosquitto is unable to change to
                        this user and group, it will exit with an error. The
                        user specified must have read/write access to the
                        persistence database if it is to be written. If run as
                        a non-root user, this setting has no effect. Defaults
                        to mosquitto.</para>
                    <para>This setting has no effect on Windows and so you
                        should run mosquitto as the user you wish it to run
                        as.</para>
                    <para>Not reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </refsect1>
 
    <refsect1>
        <title>Listeners</title>
        <para>The network ports that mosquitto listens on can be controlled
            using listeners. The default listener options can be overridden and
            further listeners can be created.</para>
        <refsect2>
            <title>General Options</title>
            <variablelist>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>bind_address</option> <replaceable>address</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Listen for incoming network connections on the
                            specified IP address/hostname only. This is useful
                            to restrict access to certain network interfaces.
                            To restrict access to mosquitto to the local host
                            only, use "bind_address localhost". This only
                            applies to the default listener. Use the listener
                            variable to control other listeners.</para>
                        <para>Not reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>bind_interface</option> <replaceable>device</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Listen for incoming network connections only on
                            the specified interface. This is similar to the
                            <option>bind_address</option> option but is useful
                            when an interface has multiple addresses or the
                            address may change.</para>
                        <para>It is valid to use this option together with
                            <option>bind_address</option> for the default
                            listener, or the <replaceable>bind
                                address/host</replaceable> part of the
                            <option>listener</option> definition.  Care should
                            be taken to ensure that the address being bound to
                            is on the interface being bound to.  If you set the
                            <option>bind_interface</option> to be
                            <replaceable>eth0</replaceable>, and
                            <option>bind_address</option> to
                            <replaceable>127.0.0.1</replaceable>, then the
                            broker will start correctly but you will be unable
                            to connect.</para>
                        <para>This option is currently only available on
                            Linux, and requires elevated privileges.</para>
                        <para>Not reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>http_dir</option> <replaceable>directory</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>When a listener is using the websockets protocol,
                            it is possible to serve http data as well. Set
                            <option>http_dir</option> to a directory which
                            contains the files you wish to serve. If this
                            option is not specified, then no normal http
                            connections will be possible.</para>
                        <para>Not reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>listener</option> <replaceable>port</replaceable> <replaceable><optional>bind address/host</optional></replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Listen for incoming network connection on the
                            specified port. A second optional argument allows
                            the listener to be bound to a specific ip
                            address/hostname. If this variable is used and
                            neither the global <option>bind_address</option>
                            nor <option>port</option> options are used then the
                            default listener will not be started.</para>
                        <para>The <option>bind address/host</option> option
                            allows this listener to be bound to a specific IP
                            address by passing an IP address or hostname. For
                            websockets listeners, it is only possible to pass
                            an IP address here.</para>
                        <para>This option may be specified multiple times. See
                            also the <option>mount_point</option>
                            option.</para>
                        <para>Not reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>max_connections</option> <replaceable>count</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Limit the total number of clients connected for
                            the current listener. Set to <literal>-1</literal>
                            to have "unlimited" connections. Note that other
                            limits may be imposed that are outside the control
                            of mosquitto.  See e.g.
                            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>limits.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
                        <para>Not reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>maximum_qos</option> <replaceable>count</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Limit the QoS value allowed when using this
                            listener. Defaults to 2, which means any QoS can be
                            used. Set to 0 or 1 to limit to those QoS values.
                            This makes use of an MQTT v5 feature to notify
                            clients of the limitation. MQTT v3.1.1 clients will
                            not be aware of the limitation. Clients publshing
                            to this listener with a too-high QoS will be
                            disconnected.</para>
                        <para>Not reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>max_topic_alias</option> <replaceable>number</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>This option sets the maximum number topic aliases
                            that an MQTT v5 client is allowed to create. It
                            applies per listener. Defaults to 10. Set to 0 to
                            disallow topic aliases.</para>
                        <para>Not reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>mount_point</option> <replaceable>topic prefix</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>This option is used with the listener option to
                            isolate groups of clients. When a client connects
                            to a listener which uses this option, the string
                            argument is attached to the start of all topics for
                            this client. This prefix is removed when any
                            messages are sent to the client.  This means a
                            client connected to a listener with mount point
                            <replaceable>example</replaceable> can only see
                            messages that are published in the topic hierarchy
                            <replaceable>example</replaceable> and below.</para>
                        <para>Not reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>port</option> <replaceable>port number</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Set the network port for the default listener to
                            listen on. Defaults to 1883.</para>
                        <para>Not reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>protocol</option> <replaceable>value</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Set the protocol to accept for this listener. Can
                            be <option>mqtt</option>, the default, or
                            <option>websockets</option> if available.</para>
                        <para>Websockets support is currently disabled by
                            default at compile time. Certificate based TLS may be used
                            with websockets, except that only the
                            <option>cafile</option>, <option>certfile</option>,
                            <option>keyfile</option> and
                            <option>ciphers</option> options are
                            supported.</para>
                        <para>Not reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>socket_domain</option> [ ipv4 | ipv6 ]</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>By default, a listener will attempt to listen on
                            all supported IP protocol versions. If you do not
                            have an IPv4 or IPv6 interface you may wish to
                            disable support for either of those protocol
                            versions. In particular, note that due to the
                            limitations of the websockets library, it will only
                            ever attempt to open IPv6 sockets if IPv6 support
                            is compiled in, and so will fail if IPv6 is not
                            available.</para>
                        <para>Set to <option>ipv4</option> to force the
                            listener to only use IPv4, or set to
                            <option>ipv6</option> to force the listener to only
                            use IPv6. If you want support for both IPv4 and
                            IPv6, then do not use the
                            <option>socket_domain</option> option.</para>
                        <para>Not reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>use_username_as_clientid</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Set <option>use_username_as_clientid</option> to
                            true to replace the clientid that a client
                            connected with with its username. This allows
                            authentication to be tied to the clientid, which
                            means that it is possible to prevent one client
                            disconnecting another by using the same
                            clientid. Defaults to false.</para>
                        <para>If a client connects with no username it will be
                            disconnected as not authorised when this option is
                            set to true. Do not use in conjunction with
                            <option>clientid_prefixes</option>.</para>
                        <para>See also
                            <option>use_identity_as_username</option>.</para>
                        <para>Not reloaded on reload signal.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>websockets_log_level</option> <replaceable>level</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Change the websockets logging level. This is a
                            global option, it is not possible to set per
                            listener. This is an integer that is interpreted by
                            libwebsockets as a bit mask for its lws_log_levels
                            enum. See the libwebsockets documentation for more
                            details.</para>
                        <para>To use this option, <option>log_type
                                websockets</option> must also be enabled.
                            Defaults to 0.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>websockets_headers_size</option> <replaceable>size</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Change the websockets headers size. This is a
                            global option, it is not possible to set per
                            listener. This option sets the size of the buffer
                            used in the libwebsockets library when reading HTTP
                            headers. If you are passing large header data such
                            as cookies then you may need to increase this
                            value. If left unset, or set to 0, then the default
                            of 1024 bytes will be used.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
        </refsect2>
        <refsect2>
            <title>Certificate based SSL/TLS Support</title>
            <para>The following options are available for all listeners to
                configure certificate based SSL support. See also
                "Pre-shared-key based SSL/TLS support".</para>
            <variablelist>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>cafile</option> <replaceable>file path</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>At least one of <option>cafile</option> or
                            <option>capath</option> must be provided to allow
                            SSL support.</para>
                        <para><option>cafile</option> is used to define the
                            path to a file containing the PEM encoded CA
                            certificates that are trusted.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>capath</option> <replaceable>directory path</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>At least one of <option>cafile</option> or
                            <option>capath</option> must be provided to allow
                            SSL support.</para>
                        <para><option>capath</option> is used to define a
                            directory that contains PEM encoded CA certificates
                            that are trusted. For <option>capath</option> to
                            work correctly, the certificates files must have
                            ".pem" as the file ending and you must run
                            "openssl rehash &lt;path to capath&gt;" each time you
                            add/remove a certificate.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>certfile</option> <replaceable>file path</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Path to the PEM encoded server certificate.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>ciphers</option> <replaceable>cipher:list</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>The list of allowed ciphers, each separated with
                            a colon. Available ciphers can be obtained using
                            the "openssl ciphers" command.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>crlfile</option> <replaceable>file path</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>If you have <option>require_certificate</option>
                            set to <replaceable>true</replaceable>, you can
                            create a certificate revocation list file to revoke
                            access to particular client certificates. If you
                            have done this, use crlfile to point to the PEM
                            encoded revocation file.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>dhparamfile</option> <replaceable>file path</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>To allow the use of ephemeral DH key exchange,
                            which provides forward security, the listener must
                            load DH parameters. This can be specified with the
                            dhparamfile option. The dhparamfile can be
                            generated with the command e.g.</para>
                        <programlisting>
openssl dhparam -out dhparam.pem 2048</programlisting>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>keyfile</option> <replaceable>file path</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Path to the PEM encoded keyfile.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>require_certificate</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>By default an SSL/TLS enabled listener will
                            operate in a similar fashion to a https enabled web
                            server, in that the server has a certificate signed
                            by a CA and the client will verify that it is a
                            trusted certificate.  The overall aim is encryption
                            of the network traffic.  By setting
                            <option>require_certificate</option> to
                            <replaceable>true</replaceable>, the client must
                            provide a valid certificate in order for the
                            network connection to proceed. This allows access
                            to the broker to be controlled outside of the
                            mechanisms provided by MQTT.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>tls_engine</option> <replaceable>engine</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>A valid openssl engine id. These can be listed with
                        openssl engine command.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>tls_engine_kpass_sha1</option> <replaceable>engine_kpass_sha1</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>SHA1 of the private key password when using an
                            TLS engine.  Some TLS engines such as the TPM
                            engine may require the use of a password in order
                            to be accessed.  This option allows a hex encoded
                            SHA1 hash of the password to the engine directly,
                            instead of the user being prompted for the
                            password.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>tls_keyform</option> [ pem | engine ]</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Specifies the type of private key in use when
                            making TLS connections.. This can be "pem" or
                            "engine". This parameter is useful when a TPM
                            module is being used and the private key has been
                            created with it. Defaults to "pem", which means
                            normal private key files are used.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>tls_version</option> <replaceable>version</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Configure the version of the TLS protocol to be
                            used for this listener. Possible values are
                            <replaceable>tlsv1.3</replaceable>,
                            <replaceable>tlsv1.2</replaceable> and
                            <replaceable>tlsv1.1</replaceable>. If left unset,
                            the default of allowing all of TLS v1.3, v1.2 and
                            v1.1 is used.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>use_identity_as_username</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>If <option>require_certificate</option> is
                            <replaceable>true</replaceable>, you may set
                            <option>use_identity_as_username</option> to
                            <replaceable>true</replaceable> to use the CN value
                            from the client certificate as a username. If this
                            is <replaceable>true</replaceable>, the
                            <option>password_file</option> option will not be
                            used for this listener.</para>
                        <para>This takes priority over
                            <option>use_subject_as_username</option> if both
                            are set to <replaceable>true</replaceable>.</para>
                        <para>See also
                            <option>use_subject_as_username</option></para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>use_subject_as_username</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>If <option>require_certificate</option> is
                            <replaceable>true</replaceable>, you may set
                            <option>use_subject_as_username</option> to
                            <replaceable>true</replaceable> to use the complete subject value
                            from the client certificate as a username. If this
                            is <replaceable>true</replaceable>, the
                            <option>password_file</option> option will not be
                            used for this listener.</para>
                        <para>The subject will be generated in a form similar
                            to <option>CN=test client,OU=Production,O=Server,L=Nottingham,ST=Nottinghamshire,C=GB</option>.</para>
                        <para>See also
                            <option>use_identity_as_username</option></para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
        </refsect2>
        <refsect2>
            <title>Pre-shared-key based SSL/TLS Support</title>
            <para>The following options are available for all listeners to
                configure pre-shared-key based SSL support. See also
                "Certificate based SSL/TLS support".</para>
            <variablelist>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>ciphers</option> <replaceable>cipher:list</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>When using PSK, the encryption ciphers used will
                            be chosen from the list of available PSK ciphers.
                            If you want to control which ciphers are available,
                            use this option.  The list of available ciphers can
                            be optained using the "openssl ciphers" command and
                            should be provided in the same format as the output
                            of that command.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>psk_hint</option> <replaceable>hint</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>The <option>psk_hint</option> option enables
                            pre-shared-key support for this listener and also
                            acts as an identifier for this listener. The hint
                            is sent to clients and may be used locally to aid
                            authentication. The hint is a free form string that
                            doesn't have much meaning in itself, so feel free
                            to be creative.</para>
                        <para>If this option is provided, see
                            <option>psk_file</option> to define the pre-shared
                            keys to be used or create a security plugin to
                            handle them.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>tls_version</option> <replaceable>version</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Configure the version of the TLS protocol to be
                            used for this listener. Possible values are
                            <replaceable>tlsv1.3</replaceable>,
                            <replaceable>tlsv1.2</replaceable> and
                            <replaceable>tlsv1.1</replaceable>. If left unset,
                            the default of allowing all of TLS v1.3, v1.2 and
                            v1.1 is used.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>use_identity_as_username</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Set <option>use_identity_as_username</option> to
                            have the psk identity sent by the client used as
                            its username.  The username will be checked as
                            normal, so <option>password_file</option> or
                            another means of authentication checking must be
                            used. No password will be used.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
        </refsect2>
    </refsect1>
 
    <refsect1>
        <title>Configuring Bridges</title>
        <para>Multiple bridges (connections to other brokers) can be configured
        using the following variables.</para>
        <para>Bridges cannot currently be reloaded on reload signal.</para>
        <variablelist>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>address</option> <replaceable>address[:port]</replaceable> <replaceable>[address[:port]]</replaceable></term>
                <term><option>addresses</option> <replaceable>address[:port]</replaceable> <replaceable>[address[:port]]</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Specify the address and optionally the port of the
                        bridge to connect to. This must be given for each
                        bridge connection. If the port is not specified, the
                        default of 1883 is used.</para>
                    <para>If you use an IPv6 address, then the port is not
                        optional.</para>
                    <para>Multiple host addresses can be specified on the
                        address config. See the <option>round_robin</option>
                        option for more details on the behaviour of bridges
                        with multiple addresses.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>bridge_attempt_unsubscribe</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>If a bridge has topics that have "out" direction, the
                        default behaviour is to send an unsubscribe request to
                        the remote broker on that topic. This means that
                        changing a topic direction from "in" to "out" will not
                        keep receiving incoming messages. Sending these
                        unsubscribe requests is not always desirable, setting
                        <option>bridge_attempt_unsubscribe</option> to
                        <replaceable>false</replaceable> will disable sending
                        the unsubscribe request. Defaults to
                        <replaceable>true</replaceable>.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>bridge_protocol_version</option> <replaceable>version</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Set the version of the MQTT protocol to use with for
                        this bridge. Can be one of
                        <replaceable>mqttv31</replaceable> or
                        <replaceable>mqttv311</replaceable>. Defaults to
                        <replaceable>mqttv31</replaceable>.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>cleansession</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Set the clean session option for this bridge. Setting
                        to <replaceable>false</replaceable> (the default),
                        means that all subscriptions on the remote broker are
                        kept in case of the network connection dropping. If set
                        to <replaceable>true</replaceable>, all subscriptions
                        and messages on the remote broker will be cleaned up if
                        the connection drops. Note that setting to
                        <replaceable>true</replaceable> may cause a large
                        amount of retained messages to be sent each time the
                        bridge reconnects.</para>
                    <para>If you are using bridges with
                        <option>cleansession</option> set to
                        <replaceable>false</replaceable> (the default), then
                        you may get unexpected behaviour from incoming topics
                        if you change what topics you are subscribing to. This
                        is because the remote broker keeps the subscription for
                        the old topic.  If you have this problem, connect your
                        bridge with <option>cleansession</option> set to
                        <replaceable>true</replaceable>, then reconnect with
                        cleansession set to <replaceable>false</replaceable> as
                        normal.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>connection</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>This variable marks the start of a new bridge
                        connection. It is also used to give the bridge a name
                        which is used as the client id on the remote
                        broker.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>keepalive_interval</option> <replaceable>seconds</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Set the number of seconds after which the bridge
                        should send a ping if no other traffic has occurred.
                        Defaults to 60. A minimum value of 5 seconds
                        is allowed.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>idle_timeout</option> <replaceable>seconds</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Set the amount of time a bridge using the lazy start
                        type must be idle before it will be stopped. Defaults
                        to 60 seconds.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>local_clientid</option> <replaceable>id</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Set the clientid to use on the local broker. If not
                        defined, this defaults to
                        <option>local.&lt;remote_clientid&gt;</option>. If you are
                        bridging a broker to itself, it is important that
                        local_clientid and remote_clientid do not match.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>local_password</option> <replaceable>password</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Configure the password to be used when connecting
                        this bridge to the local broker. This may be important
                        when authentication and ACLs are being used.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>local_username</option> <replaceable>username</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Configure the username to be used when connecting
                        this bridge to the local broker. This may be important
                        when authentication and ACLs are being used.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>notifications</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>If set to <replaceable>true</replaceable>, publish
                        notification messages to the local and remote brokers
                        giving information about the state of the bridge
                        connection. Retained messages are published to the
                        topic $SYS/broker/connection/&lt;remote_clientid&gt;/state
                        unless otherwise set with
                        <option>notification_topic</option>s.  If the message
                        is 1 then the connection is active, or 0 if the
                        connection has failed. Defaults to
                        <replaceable>true</replaceable>.</para>
                    <para>This uses the Last Will and Testament (LWT) feature.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
             <varlistentry>
                <term><option>notifications_local_only</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>If set to <replaceable>true</replaceable>, only publish
                        notification messages to the local broker giving 
                        information about the state of the bridge connection.
                        Defaults to <replaceable>false</replaceable>.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>notification_topic</option> <replaceable>topic</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Choose the topic on which notifications will be
                        published for this bridge. If not set the messages will
                        be sent on the topic
                        $SYS/broker/connection/&lt;remote_clientid&gt;/state.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>remote_clientid</option> <replaceable>id</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Set the client id for this bridge connection. If not
                        defined, this defaults to 'name.hostname', where name
                        is the connection name and hostname is the hostname of
                        this computer.</para>
                    <para>This replaces the old "clientid" option to avoid
                        confusion with local/remote sides of the bridge.
                        "clientid" remains valid for the time being.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>remote_password</option> <replaceable>value</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Configure a password for the bridge. This is used for
                        authentication purposes when connecting to a broker
                        that supports MQTT v3.1 and up and requires a username
                        and/or password to connect. This option is only valid
                        if a remote_username is also supplied.</para>
                    <para>This replaces the old "password" option to avoid
                        confusion with local/remote sides of the bridge.
                        "password" remains valid for the time being.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>remote_username</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Configure a username for the bridge. This is used for
                        authentication purposes when connecting to a broker
                        that supports MQTT v3.1 and up and requires a username
                        and/or password to connect. See also the
                        <option>remote_password</option> option.</para>
                    <para>This replaces the old "username" option to avoid
                        confusion with local/remote sides of the bridge.
                        "username" remains valid for the time being.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>restart_timeout</option> <replaceable>base cap</replaceable></term>
                <term><option>restart_timeout</option> <replaceable>constant</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Set the amount of time a bridge using the automatic
                        start type will wait until attempting to reconnect.</para>
                    <para>This option can be configured to use a constant delay
                        time in seconds, or to use a backoff mechanism based on
                        "Decorrelated Jitter", which adds a degree of
                        randomness to when the restart occurs, starting at the
                        base and increasing up to the cap. Set a constant
                        timeout of 20 seconds:</para>
                        <programlisting language="config">
restart_timeout 20</programlisting>
                    <para>Set backoff with a base (start value) of 10 seconds and a cap (upper
                        limit) of 60 seconds:</para>
                        <programlisting language="config">
restart_timeout 10 30</programlisting>
                    <para>Defaults to jitter with a base of 5 seconds and cap
                        of 30 seconds.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>round_robin</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>If the bridge has more than one address given in the
                        address/addresses configuration, the round_robin option
                        defines the behaviour of the bridge on a failure of the
                        bridge connection. If round_robin is
                        <replaceable>false</replaceable>, the default value,
                        then the first address is treated as the main bridge
                        connection. If the connection fails, the other
                        secondary addresses will be attempted in turn. Whilst
                        connected to a secondary bridge, the bridge will
                        periodically attempt to reconnect to the main bridge
                        until successful.</para>
                    <para>If round_robin is <replaceable>true</replaceable>,
                        then all addresses are treated as equals. If a
                        connection fails, the next address will be tried and if
                        successful will remain connected until it fails.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>start_type</option> [ automatic | lazy | once ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Set the start type of the bridge. This controls how
                        the bridge starts and can be one of three types:
                        <replaceable>automatic</replaceable>, <replaceable>lazy
                        </replaceable>and <replaceable>once</replaceable>. Note
                        that RSMB provides a fourth start type "manual" which
                        isn't currently supported by mosquitto.</para>
 
                    <para><replaceable>automatic</replaceable> is the default
                        start type and means that the bridge connection will be
                        started automatically when the broker starts and also
                        restarted after a short delay (30 seconds) if the
                        connection fails.</para>
 
                    <para>Bridges using the <replaceable>lazy</replaceable>
                        start type will be started automatically when the
                        number of queued messages exceeds the number set with
                        the <option>threshold</option> option. It will be
                        stopped automatically after the time set by the
                        <option>idle_timeout</option> parameter. Use this start
                        type if you wish the connection to only be active when
                        it is needed.</para>
 
                    <para>A bridge using the <replaceable>once</replaceable>
                        start type will be started automatically when the
                        broker starts but will not be restarted if the
                        connection fails.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>threshold</option> <replaceable>count</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Set the number of messages that need to be queued for
                        a bridge with lazy start type to be restarted.
                        Defaults to 10 messages.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>topic</option> <replaceable>pattern</replaceable> [[[ out | in | both ] qos-level] local-prefix remote-prefix]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Define a topic pattern to be shared between the two
                        brokers. Any topics matching the pattern (which may
                        include wildcards) are shared. The second parameter
                        defines the direction that the messages will be shared
                        in, so it is possible to import messages from a remote
                        broker using <replaceable>in</replaceable>, export
                        messages to a remote broker using
                        <replaceable>out</replaceable> or share messages in
                        both directions. If this parameter is not defined, the
                        default of <replaceable>out</replaceable> is used. The
                        QoS level defines the publish/subscribe QoS level used
                        for this topic and defaults to 0.</para>
                    <para>The <replaceable>local-prefix</replaceable> and
                        <replaceable>remote-prefix</replaceable> options allow
                        topics to be remapped when publishing to and receiving
                        from remote brokers. This allows a topic tree from the
                        local broker to be inserted into the topic tree of the
                        remote broker at an appropriate place.</para>
                    <para>For incoming topics, the bridge will prepend the
                        pattern with the remote prefix and subscribe to the
                        resulting topic on the remote broker. When a matching
                        incoming message is received, the remote prefix will be
                        removed from the topic and then the local prefix
                        added.</para>
                    <para>For outgoing topics, the bridge will prepend the
                        pattern with the local prefix and subscribe to the
                        resulting topic on the local broker. When an outgoing
                        message is processed, the local prefix will be removed
                        from the topic then the remote prefix added.</para>
                    <para>When using topic mapping, an empty prefix can be
                        defined using the place marker
                        <replaceable>""</replaceable>. Using the empty marker
                        for the topic itself is also valid. The table below
                        defines what combination of empty or value is
                        valid. The <option>Full Local Topic</option> and
                        <option>Full Remote Topic</option> show the resulting
                        topics that would be used on the local and remote ends
                        of the bridge. For example, for the first table row if
                        you publish to <option>L/topic</option> on the local
                        broker, then the remote broker will receive a message
                        on the topic <option>R/topic</option>.</para>
 
                    <informaltable>
                        <tgroup cols="6">
                            <thead>
                                <row>
                                    <entry><emphasis>Pattern</emphasis></entry>
                                    <entry><emphasis>Local Prefix</emphasis></entry>
                                    <entry><emphasis>Remote Prefix</emphasis></entry>
                                    <entry><emphasis>Validity</emphasis></entry>
                                    <entry><emphasis>Full Local Topic</emphasis></entry>
                                    <entry><emphasis>Full Remote Topic</emphasis></entry>
                            </row>
                            </thead>
                            <tbody>
                                <row><entry>pattern</entry><entry>L/</entry><entry>R/</entry><entry>valid</entry><entry>L/pattern</entry><entry>R/pattern</entry></row>
                                <row><entry>pattern</entry><entry>L/</entry><entry>""</entry><entry>valid</entry><entry>L/pattern</entry><entry>pattern</entry></row>
                                <row><entry>pattern</entry><entry>""</entry><entry>R/</entry><entry>valid</entry><entry>pattern</entry><entry>R/pattern</entry></row>
                                <row><entry>pattern</entry><entry>""</entry><entry>""</entry><entry>valid (no remapping)</entry><entry>pattern</entry><entry>pattern</entry></row>
                                <row><entry>""</entry><entry>local</entry><entry>remote</entry><entry>valid (remap single local topic to remote)</entry><entry>local</entry><entry>remote</entry></row>
                                <row><entry>""</entry><entry>local</entry><entry>""</entry><entry>invalid</entry><entry></entry><entry></entry></row>
                                <row><entry>""</entry><entry>""</entry><entry>remote</entry><entry>invalid</entry><entry></entry><entry></entry></row>
                                <row><entry>""</entry><entry>""</entry><entry>""</entry><entry>invalid</entry><entry></entry><entry></entry></row>
                            </tbody>
                        </tgroup>
                    </informaltable>
                    <para>To remap an entire topic tree, use e.g.:</para>
                    <programlisting language="config">
topic # both 2 local/topic/ remote/topic/</programlisting>
 
                    <para>This option can be specified multiple times per
                        bridge.</para>
                    <para>Care must be taken to ensure that loops are not
                        created with this option. If you are experiencing high
                        CPU load from a broker, it is possible that you have a
                        loop where each broker is forever forwarding each other
                        the same messages.</para>
                    <para>See also the <option>cleansession</option> option if
                        you have messages arriving on unexpected topics when
                        using incoming topics.</para>
 
                    <example title="Bridge Topic Remapping" label="Bridge Topic Remapping">
                        <para>The configuration below connects a bridge to the
                            broker at <option>test.mosquitto.org</option>. It
                            subscribes to the remote topic
                            <option>$SYS/broker/clients/total</option> and
                            republishes the messages received to the local topic
                            <option>test/mosquitto/org/clients/total</option></para>
                        <programlisting language="config">
connection test-mosquitto-org
address test.mosquitto.org
cleansession true
topic clients/total in 0 test/mosquitto/org $SYS/broker/
</programlisting></example>
 
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>try_private</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>If try_private is set to
                        <replaceable>true</replaceable>, the bridge will
                        attempt to indicate to the remote broker that it is a
                        bridge not an ordinary client. If successful, this
                        means that loop detection will be more effective and
                        that retained messages will be propagated correctly.
                        Not all brokers support this feature so it may be
                        necessary to set <option>try_private</option> to
                        <replaceable>false</replaceable> if your bridge does
                        not connect properly.</para>
                    <para>Defaults to <replaceable>true</replaceable>.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
        <refsect2>
            <title>SSL/TLS Support</title>
            <para>The following options are available for all bridges to
                configure SSL/TLS support.</para>
            <variablelist>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>bridge_alpn</option> <replaceable>alpn</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Configure the application layer protocol negotiation
                            option for the TLS session.  Useful for brokers that support
                            both websockets and MQTT on the same port.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>bridge_cafile</option> <replaceable>file path</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>One of <option>bridge_cafile</option> or
                            <option>bridge_capath</option> must be provided to
                            allow SSL/TLS support.</para>
                        <para>bridge_cafile is used to define the path to a file
                            containing the PEM encoded CA certificates that
                            have signed the certificate for the remote broker.
                        </para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>bridge_capath</option> <replaceable>file path</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>One of <option>bridge_capath</option> or
                            <option>bridge_capath</option> must be provided to
                            allow SSL/TLS support.</para>
                        <para>bridge_capath is used to define the path to a
                            directory containing the PEM encoded CA
                            certificates that have signed the certificate for
                            the remote broker. For bridge_capath to work
                            correctly, the certificate files must have ".crt"
                            as the file ending and you must run "openssl rehash
                            &lt;path to bridge_capath&gt;" each time you
                            add/remove a certificate.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>bridge_certfile</option> <replaceable>file path</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Path to the PEM encoded client certificate for
                            this bridge, if required by the remote
                            broker.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>bridge_identity</option> <replaceable>identity</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Pre-shared-key encryption provides an alternative
                            to certificate based encryption. A bridge can be
                            configured to use PSK with the
                            <option>bridge_identity</option> and
                            <option>bridge_psk</option> options.  This is the
                            client identity used with PSK encryption. Only one
                            of certificate and PSK based encryption can be used
                            on one bridge at once.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>bridge_insecure</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>When using certificate based TLS, the bridge will
                            attempt to verify the hostname provided in the
                            remote certificate matches the host/address being
                            connected to. This may cause problems in testing
                            scenarios, so <option>bridge_insecure</option> may
                            be set to <replaceable>false</replaceable> to
                            disable the hostname verification.</para>
                        <para>Setting this option to
                            <replaceable>true</replaceable> means that a
                            malicious third party could potentially inpersonate
                            your server, so it should always be set to
                            <replaceable>false</replaceable> in production
                            environments.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>bridge_keyfile</option> <replaceable>file path</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Path to the PEM encoded private key for this
                            bridge, if required by the remote broker.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>bridge_psk</option> <replaceable>key</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Pre-shared-key encryption provides an alternative
                            to certificate based encryption. A bridge can be
                            configured to use PSK with the
                            <option>bridge_identity</option> and
                            <option>bridge_psk</option> options.  This is the
                            pre-shared-key in hexadecimal format with no "0x".
                            Only one of certificate and PSK based encryption
                            can be used on one bridge at once.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>bridge_require_ocsp</option> [ true | false ]</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>When set to true, the bridge requires OCSP on the TLS
                            connection it opens as client.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term><option>bridge_tls_version</option> <replaceable>version</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Configure the version of the TLS protocol to be
                            used for this bridge. Possible values are
                            <replaceable>tlsv1.3</replaceable>,
                            <replaceable>tlsv1.2</replaceable> and
                            <replaceable>tlsv1.1</replaceable>. Defaults to
                            <replaceable>tlsv1.2</replaceable>. The remote
                            broker must support the same version of TLS for the
                            connection to succeed.</para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
        </refsect2>
    </refsect1>
 
    <refsect1>
        <title>Files</title>
        <para>mosquitto.conf</para>
    </refsect1>
 
    <refsect1>
        <title>Bugs</title>
        <para><command>mosquitto</command> bug information can be found at
            <ulink url="https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/issues"/></para>
    </refsect1>
 
    <refsect1>
        <title>See Also</title>
        <simplelist type="inline">
            <member>
                <citerefentry>
                    <refentrytitle><link xlink:href="mosquitto-8.html">mosquitto</link></refentrytitle>
                    <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
                </citerefentry>
            </member>
            <member>
                <citerefentry>
                    <refentrytitle><link xlink:href="mosquitto_passwd-1.html">mosquitto_passwd</link></refentrytitle>
                    <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
                </citerefentry>
            </member>
            <member>
                <citerefentry>
                    <refentrytitle><link xlink:href="mosquitto-tls-7.html">mosquitto-tls</link></refentrytitle>
                    <manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
                </citerefentry>
            </member>
            <member>
                <citerefentry>
                    <refentrytitle><link xlink:href="mqtt-7.html">mqtt</link></refentrytitle>
                    <manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
                </citerefentry>
            </member>
            <member>
                <citerefentry>
                    <refentrytitle><link xlink:href="http://linux.die.net/man/5/limits.conf">limits.conf</link></refentrytitle>
                    <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
                </citerefentry>
            </member>
        </simplelist>
    </refsect1>
 
    <refsect1>
        <title>Author</title>
        <para>Roger Light <email>roger@atchoo.org</email></para>
    </refsect1>
</refentry>