Re: wpa_supplicant eap password

[patricio retamales <patricioretamales1%gmail.com@localhost>]

2010/9/29 Victor Dorneanu <victor%dornea.nu@localhost>

> Hi!
>
> I've been trying to configure my wpa_supplicant client using EAP. Here's
> my configuration:
>
>
> network={
>    ssid="xxx"
>    key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
>    eap=PEAP
>    identity="xxxx@xxxxx"
>    anonymous_identity="xxx@xxxxx"
>    ca_cert="/etc/wpa_supplicant/xxxx.pem"
>    phase1="peaplabel=0"
>    phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
>    priority=2
>    password="secret password"
> }
>
> That works fine. Then I found this
> (
> http://hostap.epitest.fi/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=hostap.git;a=blob_plain;f=wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> ):
>
> ...
>
> # password: Password string for EAP. This field can include either the
> #       plaintext password (using ASCII or hex string) or a NtPasswordHash
> #       (16-byte MD4 hash of password) in hash:<32 hex digits> format.
> #       NtPasswordHash can only be used when the password is for MSCHAPv2
> or
> #       MSCHAP (EAP-MSCHAPv2, EAP-TTLS/MSCHAPv2, EAP-TTLS/MSCHAP, LEAP).
> #       EAP-PSK (128-bit PSK), EAP-PAX (128-bit PSK), and EAP-SAKE (256-bit
> #       PSK) is also configured using this field. For EAP-GPSK, this is a
> #       variable length PSK.
>
> ...
>
>
> How do I specify a hash password in my configuration? I don't like
> plaintext passwords hanging around in configuration files. Any ideas?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Victor
>
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>
Hi, try this

 wpa_passphrase mywireless "secretpassphrase" >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

before you can modify the options that you want.
Sorry my bad english.