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badbishop
Asked: 2015-07-18 02:34:11 +0800 CST

How to verify a RabbitMQ user password?

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Is there a simple method to verify a RabbitMQ user password from command line? By simple I mean:

  • without rabbitmq_management plugin enabled

  • without extra dependencies, like ruby/python/etc. libraries not usually present on a Linux machine by default.

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3 Answers

  1. sudo rabbitmqctl authenticate_user <username> <password>

    If the password is appropriate it shows:

    Authenticating user "username"
Success

    If the password is wrong it shows the below:

    Authenticating user "username"
Error: failed to authenticate user "username"
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    • There is rabbitmqctl authenticate_user
    • rabbitmqadmin can be used if the user has the management tag (which can be added temporarily)
    • Alternative authN backends have more options: LDAP tooling for the LDAP backend, curl for the HTTP backend and so on.
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  3. You can attempt to login with the username/password using rabbitmqadmin, although this is not included by default when installing RabbitMQ.

    IMHO the simplest thing to do is write a Python script that connects to RabbitMQ, but this requires either a) the Kombu library or equivalent, or b) writing your own minimalistic AMQP client.

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