Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:02:28 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Eitarou Kamo <e-kamo@trio.plala.or.jp> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Pietro Cerutti <gahr@gahr.ch> Subject: Re: none of wpa_passphrase Message-ID: <46BC9A24.4070500@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <46BC52A6.40005@trio.plala.or.jp> References: <46BAD8F3.1050403@trio.plala.or.jp> <46BBE66E.4040202@trio.plala.or.jp> <46BC4155.20803@gahr.ch> <46BC52A6.40005@trio.plala.or.jp>
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Eitarou Kamo wrote:
> Pietro Cerutti wrote:
>
>
>> Eitarou Kamo wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I used wpa _supplicant and was aware none of wpa _passphrase.
>>>> My machine is 6.2 REREASE. Does anyone have it or way to making it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>> These kind of generic questions are better suited for
>> freebsd-questions@, i doubt.
>>
>> Anyway, from man 8 wpa_passphrase:
>>
>> The wpa_passphrase utility is a small program for generating a 256-bit
>> pre-shared WPA key from an ASCII passphrase and a given SSID. The output
>> is formatted for inclusion in wpa_supplicant.conf(5).
>>
>> Example:
>> I have an access point with ssid MySSID and passphrase MyS3cr3t:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> wpa_passphrase MySSID
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> # reading passphrase from stdin
>> MyS3cr3t
>> network={
>> ssid="MySSID"
>> #psk="MyS3cr3t"
>> psk=c0964594a3000e7605ef17097f7d939a44e516f05b99806fd862db5934c2e4d4
>> }
>>
>> The output is ready to be included in your wpa_supplicant.conf file
>> (better removing the commented line where the password is in clear text).
>> nf
>>
>>
>>
> My question is not the usage of it but itself.... I can't use
> wpa_supplicant because
> none of it. Is there it anywhere? Haven't it been dealt with stable yet?
>
wpa_supplicant includes the functionality of wpa_passphrase. You only
want it if you want to precompute the PSK from a passphrase.
As to building it you have the code; just setup a Makefile in
usr.sbin/wpa. HEAD and RELENG_6 include support so try grabbing it from
there.
Sam
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