Mosquito working, but MQTT explorer can't connect

I’m running Home Assistant OS 13.2 with Mosquito on a Pi 4, which I use to handle some Tasmota devices via MQTT. They work fine, but I recently tried connecting to my HA box using MQTT explorer on my Mac. I got a “Connection Refused: Not Authorized” message.

I’m using the exact same credentials used by my Tasmota devices, and they work fine. So what am I doing wrong?

Same problem here. MQTTX also does not connect. There is something with the Mac OS that is blocking. I have searched, but no luck so far.

This was getting me too. You may need to pass one of your home assistant credentials to login. It looks like mosquito will set those up by default for you.

This is in the Documentation tab for the Mosquito Broker

Option: logins (optional)

A list of local users that will be created with username and password. You don’t need to do this because you can use Home Assistant users too, without any configuration.