At present the broker looks up users from a specific realm. The realm used can be configured, but by default is QPID. Does testid2 work? If you specify --realm devbox does the original test with testid3 work?
Thanks Gordon, that did it for both plaintext and SSL connections. Now I can start to check out some of the more esoteric parts of the Python client, that I discussed with Rafael earlier this week.
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