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| wiki:user:nelgin [2024/02/07 10:20] – [Mosquitto, Synchronet and TLS With Self-Signed Certs] typo nelgin | wiki:user:nelgin [2026/02/16 21:51] (current) – Small update nelgin | ||
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| + | ===== Nelgin - End Of The Line BBS ===== | ||
| Nelgin was born in England and moved to the US in 1996. He's fluent in both English English and American English :) | Nelgin was born in England and moved to the US in 1996. He's fluent in both English English and American English :) | ||
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| He plays keyboards, guitar, and drums for fun. | He plays keyboards, guitar, and drums for fun. | ||
| - | His aim is to visit all 50 states. He's visited 36 so far. | + | His aim is to visit all 50 states. He's visited |
| End Of The Line BBS is run by Nelgin | End Of The Line BBS is run by Nelgin | ||
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| telnet:// | telnet:// | ||
| - | ssh:// | + | [[ssh:// |
| - | rlogin:// | + | [[rlogin:// |
| Point a viewdata emulator at endofthelinebbs.com port 6502 to try the experimental interface. | Point a viewdata emulator at endofthelinebbs.com port 6502 to try the experimental interface. | ||
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| + | I may have contributed a line or two to Synchronet. | ||
| ===== Mosquitto, Synchronet and TLS With Self-Signed Certs ===== | ===== Mosquitto, Synchronet and TLS With Self-Signed Certs ===== | ||
| - | This works for me. It might not work for you. | + | This works for me. It might not work for you. It's easier to do all this as root and then chown/chmod files as necessary to secure them. This works on Ubuntu. |
| First I created a dns entry mqtt.endofthelinebbs.com to point to my server IP address. You could probably use your regular dns name or something else, I'm not sure. I just know this works for me. | First I created a dns entry mqtt.endofthelinebbs.com to point to my server IP address. You could probably use your regular dns name or something else, I'm not sure. I just know this works for me. | ||
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| Now, convert the file | Now, convert the file | ||
| mosquitto_passwd -U pwfile | mosquitto_passwd -U pwfile | ||
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| This will upgrade the file and hash the plain text password. Never run -U on an already hashed password file or it'll rehash the hashed password! | This will upgrade the file and hash the plain text password. Never run -U on an already hashed password file or it'll rehash the hashed password! | ||
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| use_identity_as_username false | use_identity_as_username false | ||
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| - | chown mosquitto. / | + | chown mosquitto. / |
| - | chmod 640 / | + | chmod 640 / |
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| Now start or restart your mosquitto service | Now start or restart your mosquitto service | ||
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| If all is good you can now make your sbbs certs. | If all is good you can now make your sbbs certs. | ||
| - | cd /sbbs/ctrl | + | |
| Create your key | Create your key | ||
| + | cd / | ||
| openssl genrsa -out sbbs_mqtt.key 2048 | openssl genrsa -out sbbs_mqtt.key 2048 | ||
| Create your csr | Create your csr | ||
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| openssl x509 -req -in sbbs_mqtt.csr -CA ca.crt -CAkey ca.key -CAcreateserial -out sbbs_mqtt.crt | openssl x509 -req -in sbbs_mqtt.csr -CA ca.crt -CAkey ca.key -CAcreateserial -out sbbs_mqtt.crt | ||
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| - | copy the / | + | copy the / |
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| + | cp / | ||
| + | mv / | ||
| + | cd /sbbs/ctrl | ||
| chown bbsuser: | chown bbsuser: | ||
| Replacing bbsuser and bbsgroup with the username/ | Replacing bbsuser and bbsgroup with the username/ | ||
