On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Alexander Hall wrote: > For upcoming changes to the installer. > > PRE: # ifconfig wpi0 nwid mynet wpa wpapsk `wpa-psk mynet "my secret > passphrase"` > > POST: # ifconfig wpi0 nwid mynet wpa wpapsk "my secret passphrase" > > > A few conflicts arises; > > 1. You cannot have a passphrase starting with "0x" > 2. You cannot, as in -current, enter a 32-char string as the key (for > those of you even aware of that possibility, I sure wasn't :)
Are you saying it won't be possible to use a pre-generated wpa-psk key? (i.e. the output of wpa-psk(8)) If not then this might break existing configs. > 3. An nwid is required prior to supplying a passphrase to wpapsk. > 4. If the nwid is changed afterwards, the passphrase is not adjusted. > > 1 and 2) These can be taken care of by breaking this out into a new > "wpapass" option or so, if seen as real problems. I think that is a good idea. > 3 and 4) I don't see these as real problems. IMO it would be a good idea to warn for these cases. -d
