mosquitto_passwd only creates (null):$6$(null)$

[jkoopmann]

Hi,

no matter how I use mosquitt_passwd it only creates these lines:

(null):$6$(null)$

I am running this within a jail in FreeBSD. Any idea?

Regards,
JP

[ralight]

The first (null) should be the username. The only way this would end up as (null) is if you somehow passed a null pointer as an argument on the command line, which I'm sure isn't the case.

For clarity, could you confirm which version you are using and an example command line?

This is me (on Ubuntu, not FreeBSD), creating a new password file, for example:

https://asciinema.org/a/a7ZPWyXlu3HZ6m22Skb1iWRup

[jkoopmann]

https://asciinema.org/a/F5hz1adeZGPrESmRbnodqwfY1

mosquitto 1.5.3

Thanks a lot for looking into it.

[ralight]

How... peculiar. In that case, can you give me a hint on how to set up a comparable jail so I can do some debugging? I'm not FreeBSD literate. Would this do the job? http:https://kbeezie.com/freebsd-jail-single-ip/

[ralight]

Oh, and have you tried it outside the jail?

[jkoopmann]

I just tried. Same result. So you should be able to reproduce it with a fresh pkg install mosquitto

[ralight]

I've just tried on a DigitalOcean droplet with FreeBSD 11.1. I confirm that the version from pkg install mosquitto shows the same behaviour you are seeing. If I download the mosquitto source and compile it myself then it works as expected. Perhaps this needs to be taken to FreeBSD instead?

[jkoopmann]

That is very strange. I e-mailed the FreeBSD port maintainer. Let's see what Joe comes up with. Otherwise I will have to compile it myself to get a working version... Or can you drop yours somewhere for temporary download?

[jbenden]

Hello,

I've posted a request on the bug report that relates to the OpenSSL compat code added to this tool.

Please use the bug report as a means for tracking and reporting.

Best regards,
-Joe

[ASunc]

It seems that mosquitto_passwd works in FreeBSD 12.0. The problem affects only 11.x (maybe because the openssl is older version there).

[ASunc]

Here is a new issue with a fix:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235834

[ralight]

This is fixed and will be in 1.5.8 today, thanks for the help everybody.