Upgrade overwrites password file

bgschaid · March 31, 2025, 10:24am

Recently updated the mosquitto-app to version 2.0.20~ynh1 (not sure which one was the previous version).

This worked without problem apart from one thing (that broke some things for me): I changed the /etc/mosquitto/passwd file by adding a user. After the upgrade the file was changed (reset to the old state) which broke authentications

I was able to fix this by resetting the passwd-file to the pre-upgrade state (thanks etckeeper!) but it was annoying

Not sure whether this problem is due to the YH-app or the upstream apt/dpkg-package

jarod5001 · March 31, 2025, 11:37am

This file is updated using the template in the yunohost app repo.

How did you add users?
I guess that this can be handled by a config panel

github.com/YunoHost-Apps/mosquitto_ynh

scripts/upgrade

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          #=================================================
          # SPECIFIC UPGRADE
          #=================================================
          # UPDATE A CONFIG FILE
          #=================================================
          ynh_script_progression --message="Updating a configuration file..." --weight=1
          
          ynh_add_config --template="mosquitto.conf" --destination="/etc/mosquitto/conf.d/default.conf"
          
          ynh_delete_file_checksum --file="/etc/mosquitto/passwd"
          ynh_add_config --template="passwd" --destination="/etc/mosquitto/passwd"
          mosquitto_passwd -U "/etc/mosquitto/passwd"
          ynh_store_file_checksum --file="/etc/mosquitto/passwd"
          
          # Hard coded username because deb package creates the user
          chown -R "mosquitto" "/etc/mosquitto"
          
          #=================================================
          # REAPPLY SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS
          #=================================================

You can propose a PR to fix it