How to fix 1730195283: Error opening password file "/etc/mosquitto/passwd"

[juans]

1730195283: Error opening password file “/etc/mosquitto/passwd”.
in ubuntu server 22.04

[roger.light]

Hi,

Does the file exist? What happens if you try starting mosquitto manually with:

/usr/sbin/mosquitto -c /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf -v

Cheers,

Roger