mosquitto_ctrl is not using options file specified via -o parameter

[Vitaljok]

Hello!

Followed the documentation for the Dynamic Security plugin (https://mosquitto.org/documentation/dynamic-security/) and, perhaps, found a bug.

I have started local broker on custom port with enabled Dynamic security plugin.
Following command works as expected:

$ mosquitto_ctrl -h localhost -p 23456 -u admin -P asd dynsec getDefaultACLAccess

publishClientSend    : deny
publishClientReceive : allow
subscribe            : deny
unsubscribe          : allow

As described in the documentation

... mosquitto_ctrl can load an options file ... from a default location ... $HOME/.config/mosquitto_ctrl

If I create mentioned file with following content

-h localhost
-p 23456
-u admin
-P asd

then it also works as expected:

$ mosquitto_ctrl dynsec getDefaultACLAccess

publishClientSend    : deny
publishClientReceive : allow
subscribe            : deny
unsubscribe          : allow

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The documentation also says

You may override this behaviour by manually specifying an options file with -o <path to options file>.

But the file is not loaded and default options are used instead (it tries to connect to the broker on the default port).

$ mosquitto_ctrl -o /path/to/my/options dynsec getDefaultACLAccess

Error: Connection refused

Is this a bug or an undocumented feature?
Thanks!

Versions:

• mosquitto_ctrl version 2.0.14
• Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS

[rillbert]

I believe I see the same behavior as described by @Vitaljok.

Further on, the version of the docs that I follow (at https://mosquitto.org/documentation/dynamic-security/#installation) claims that the default config file name is $HOME/.config/mosquitto_ctrl.conf which has an extra .conf suffix compared to the name reported by @Vitaljok

The only way I got to work was to not use the -o option and remove the .config suffix of the config file.

• mosquitto_ctrl version 2.0.14
• ubuntu 20.04

Cheers

[ralight]

Thank you both, I've fixed the two issues ready for 2.0.15.