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-WPA Supplicant
-==============
-
-Copyright (c) 2003-2008, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and contributors
-All Rights Reserved.
-
-This program is dual-licensed under both the GPL version 2 and BSD
-license. Either license may be used at your option.
-
-
-
-License
--------
-
-GPL v2:
-
-This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
-published by the Free Software Foundation.
-
-This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
-
-(this copy of the license is in COPYING file)
-
-
-Alternatively, this software may be distributed, used, and modified
-under the terms of BSD license:
-
-Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
-modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
-met:
-
-1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
- notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
-
-2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
- notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
- documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-
-3. Neither the name(s) of the above-listed copyright holder(s) nor the
- names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
- derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
-
-THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
-"AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
-LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
-A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
-OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
-SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
-LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
-DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
-THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
-(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
-OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
-
-
-
-Features
---------
-
-Supported WPA/IEEE 802.11i features:
-- WPA-PSK ("WPA-Personal")
-- WPA with EAP (e.g., with RADIUS authentication server) ("WPA-Enterprise")
- Following authentication methods are supported with an integrate IEEE 802.1X
- Supplicant:
- * EAP-TLS
- * EAP-PEAP/MSCHAPv2 (both PEAPv0 and PEAPv1)
- * EAP-PEAP/TLS (both PEAPv0 and PEAPv1)
- * EAP-PEAP/GTC (both PEAPv0 and PEAPv1)
- * EAP-PEAP/OTP (both PEAPv0 and PEAPv1)
- * EAP-PEAP/MD5-Challenge (both PEAPv0 and PEAPv1)
- * EAP-TTLS/EAP-MD5-Challenge
- * EAP-TTLS/EAP-GTC
- * EAP-TTLS/EAP-OTP
- * EAP-TTLS/EAP-MSCHAPv2
- * EAP-TTLS/EAP-TLS
- * EAP-TTLS/MSCHAPv2
- * EAP-TTLS/MSCHAP
- * EAP-TTLS/PAP
- * EAP-TTLS/CHAP
- * EAP-SIM
- * EAP-AKA
- * EAP-PSK
- * EAP-PAX
- * EAP-SAKE
- * EAP-GPSK
- * LEAP (note: requires special support from the driver for IEEE 802.11
- authentication)
- (following methods are supported, but since they do not generate keying
- material, they cannot be used with WPA or IEEE 802.1X WEP keying)
- * EAP-MD5-Challenge
- * EAP-MSCHAPv2
- * EAP-GTC
- * EAP-OTP
-- key management for CCMP, TKIP, WEP104, WEP40
-- RSN/WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i)
- * pre-authentication
- * PMKSA caching
-
-Supported TLS/crypto libraries:
-- OpenSSL (default)
-- GnuTLS
-
-Internal TLS/crypto implementation (optional):
-- can be used in place of an external TLS/crypto library
-- TLSv1
-- X.509 certificate processing
-- PKCS #1
-- ASN.1
-- RSA
-- bignum
-- minimal size (ca. 50 kB binary, parts of which are already needed for WPA;
- TLSv1/X.509/ASN.1/RSA/bignum parts are about 25 kB on x86)
-
-
-Requirements
-------------
-
-Current hardware/software requirements:
-- Linux kernel 2.4.x or 2.6.x with Linux Wireless Extensions v15 or newer
-- FreeBSD 6-CURRENT
-- NetBSD-current
-- Microsoft Windows with WinPcap (at least WinXP, may work with other versions)
-- drivers:
- Linux drivers that support WPA/WPA2 configuration with the generic
- Linux wireless extensions (WE-18 or newer). Even though there are
- number of driver specific interface included in wpa_supplicant, please
- note that Linux drivers are moving to use generic wireless extensions
- and driver_wext (-Dwext on wpa_supplicant command line) should be the
- default option to start with before falling back to driver specific
- interface.
-
- Host AP driver for Prism2/2.5/3 (development snapshot/v0.2.x)
- (http://hostap.epitest.fi/)
- Driver need to be set in Managed mode ('iwconfig wlan0 mode managed').
- Please note that station firmware version needs to be 1.7.0 or newer
- to work in WPA mode.
-
- Linuxant DriverLoader (http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/)
- with Windows NDIS driver for your wlan card supporting WPA.
-
- Agere Systems Inc. Linux Driver
- (http://www.agere.com/support/drivers/)
- Please note that the driver interface file (driver_hermes.c) and
- hardware specific include files are not included in the
- wpa_supplicant distribution. You will need to copy these from the
- source package of the Agere driver.
-
- madwifi driver for cards based on Atheros chip set (ar521x)
- (http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/)
- Please note that you will need to modify the wpa_supplicant .config
- file to use the correct path for the madwifi driver root directory
- (CFLAGS += -I../madwifi/wpa line in example defconfig).
-
- ATMEL AT76C5XXx driver for USB and PCMCIA cards
- (http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/).
-
- Linux ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/) with
- Windows NDIS driver.
-
- Broadcom wl.o driver
- This is a generic Linux driver for Broadcom IEEE 802.11a/g cards.
- However, it is proprietary driver that is not publicly available
- except for couple of exceptions, mainly Broadcom-based APs/wireless
- routers that use Linux. The driver binary can be downloaded, e.g.,
- from Linksys support site (http://www.linksys.com/support/gpl.asp)
- for Linksys WRT54G. The GPL tarball includes cross-compiler and
- the needed header file, wlioctl.h, for compiling wpa_supplicant.
- This driver support in wpa_supplicant is expected to work also with
- other devices based on Broadcom driver (assuming the driver includes
- client mode support).
-
- Intel ipw2100 driver
- (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipw2100/)
-
- Intel ipw2200 driver
- (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipw2200/)
-
- In theory, any driver that supports Linux wireless extensions can be
- used with IEEE 802.1X (i.e., not WPA) when using ap_scan=0 option in
- configuration file.
-
- Wired Ethernet drivers (with ap_scan=0)
-
- BSD net80211 layer (e.g., Atheros driver)
- At the moment, this is for FreeBSD 6-CURRENT branch and NetBSD-current.
-
- Windows NDIS
- The current Windows port requires WinPcap (http://winpcap.polito.it/).
- See README-Windows.txt for more information.
-
-wpa_supplicant was designed to be portable for different drivers and
-operating systems. Hopefully, support for more wlan cards and OSes will be
-added in the future. See developer's documentation
-(http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/devel/) for more information about the
-design of wpa_supplicant and porting to other drivers. One main goal
-is to add full WPA/WPA2 support to Linux wireless extensions to allow
-new drivers to be supported without having to implement new
-driver-specific interface code in wpa_supplicant.
-
-Optional libraries for layer2 packet processing:
-- libpcap (tested with 0.7.2, most relatively recent versions assumed to work,
- this is likely to be available with most distributions,
- http://tcpdump.org/)
-- libdnet (tested with v1.4, most versions assumed to work,
- http://libdnet.sourceforge.net/)
-
-These libraries are _not_ used in the default Linux build. Instead,
-internal Linux specific implementation is used. libpcap/libdnet are
-more portable and they can be used by adding CONFIG_L2_PACKET=pcap into
-.config. They may also be selected automatically for other operating
-systems. In case of Windows builds, WinPcap is used by default
-(CONFIG_L2_PACKET=winpcap).
-
-
-Optional libraries for EAP-TLS, EAP-PEAP, and EAP-TTLS:
-- OpenSSL (tested with 0.9.7c and 0.9.7d, and 0.9.8 versions; assumed to
- work with most relatively recent versions; this is likely to be
- available with most distributions, http://www.openssl.org/)
-- GnuTLS
-- internal TLSv1 implementation
-
-TLS options for EAP-FAST:
-- OpenSSL 0.9.8d _with_ openssl-0.9.8d-tls-extensions.patch applied
- (i.e., the default OpenSSL package does not include support for
- extensions needed for EAP-FAST)
-- internal TLSv1 implementation
-
-One of these libraries is needed when EAP-TLS, EAP-PEAP, EAP-TTLS, or
-EAP-FAST support is enabled. WPA-PSK mode does not require this or EAPOL/EAP
-implementation. A configuration file, .config, for compilation is
-needed to enable IEEE 802.1X/EAPOL and EAP methods. Note that EAP-MD5,
-EAP-GTC, EAP-OTP, and EAP-MSCHAPV2 cannot be used alone with WPA, so
-they should only be enabled if testing the EAPOL/EAP state
-machines. However, there can be used as inner authentication
-algorithms with EAP-PEAP and EAP-TTLS.
-
-See Building and installing section below for more detailed
-information about the wpa_supplicant build time configuration.
-
-
-
-WPA
----
-
-The original security mechanism of IEEE 802.11 standard was not
-designed to be strong and has proven to be insufficient for most
-networks that require some kind of security. Task group I (Security)
-of IEEE 802.11 working group (http://www.ieee802.org/11/) has worked
-to address the flaws of the base standard and has in practice
-completed its work in May 2004. The IEEE 802.11i amendment to the IEEE
-802.11 standard was approved in June 2004 and published in July 2004.
-
-Wi-Fi Alliance (http://www.wi-fi.org/) used a draft version of the
-IEEE 802.11i work (draft 3.0) to define a subset of the security
-enhancements that can be implemented with existing wlan hardware. This
-is called Wi-Fi Protected Access<TM> (WPA). This has now become a
-mandatory component of interoperability testing and certification done
-by Wi-Fi Alliance. Wi-Fi provides information about WPA at its web
-site (http://www.wi-fi.org/OpenSection/protected_access.asp).
-
-IEEE 802.11 standard defined wired equivalent privacy (WEP) algorithm
-for protecting wireless networks. WEP uses RC4 with 40-bit keys,
-24-bit initialization vector (IV), and CRC32 to protect against packet
-forgery. All these choices have proven to be insufficient: key space is
-too small against current attacks, RC4 key scheduling is insufficient
-(beginning of the pseudorandom stream should be skipped), IV space is
-too small and IV reuse makes attacks easier, there is no replay
-protection, and non-keyed authentication does not protect against bit
-flipping packet data.
-
-WPA is an intermediate solution for the security issues. It uses
-Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) to replace WEP. TKIP is a
-compromise on strong security and possibility to use existing
-hardware. It still uses RC4 for the encryption like WEP, but with
-per-packet RC4 keys. In addition, it implements replay protection,
-keyed packet authentication mechanism (Michael MIC).
-
-Keys can be managed using two different mechanisms. WPA can either use
-an external authentication server (e.g., RADIUS) and EAP just like
-IEEE 802.1X is using or pre-shared keys without need for additional
-servers. Wi-Fi calls these "WPA-Enterprise" and "WPA-Personal",
-respectively. Both mechanisms will generate a master session key for
-the Authenticator (AP) and Supplicant (client station).
-
-WPA implements a new key handshake (4-Way Handshake and Group Key
-Handshake) for generating and exchanging data encryption keys between
-the Authenticator and Supplicant. This handshake is also used to
-verify that both Authenticator and Supplicant know the master session
-key. These handshakes are identical regardless of the selected key
-management mechanism (only the method for generating master session
-key changes).
-
-
-
-IEEE 802.11i / WPA2
--------------------
-
-The design for parts of IEEE 802.11i that were not included in WPA has
-finished (May 2004) and this amendment to IEEE 802.11 was approved in
-June 2004. Wi-Fi Alliance is using the final IEEE 802.11i as a new
-version of WPA called WPA2. This includes, e.g., support for more
-robust encryption algorithm (CCMP: AES in Counter mode with CBC-MAC)
-to replace TKIP and optimizations for handoff (reduced number of
-messages in initial key handshake, pre-authentication, and PMKSA caching).
-
-
-
-wpa_supplicant
---------------
-
-wpa_supplicant is an implementation of the WPA Supplicant component,
-i.e., the part that runs in the client stations. It implements WPA key
-negotiation with a WPA Authenticator and EAP authentication with
-Authentication Server. In addition, it controls the roaming and IEEE
-802.11 authentication/association of the wlan driver.
-
-wpa_supplicant is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the
-background and acts as the backend component controlling the wireless
-connection. wpa_supplicant supports separate frontend programs and an
-example text-based frontend, wpa_cli, is included with wpa_supplicant.
-
-Following steps are used when associating with an AP using WPA:
-
-- wpa_supplicant requests the kernel driver to scan neighboring BSSes
-- wpa_supplicant selects a BSS based on its configuration
-- wpa_supplicant requests the kernel driver to associate with the chosen
- BSS
-- If WPA-EAP: integrated IEEE 802.1X Supplicant completes EAP
- authentication with the authentication server (proxied by the
- Authenticator in the AP)
-- If WPA-EAP: master key is received from the IEEE 802.1X Supplicant
-- If WPA-PSK: wpa_supplicant uses PSK as the master session key
-- wpa_supplicant completes WPA 4-Way Handshake and Group Key Handshake
- with the Authenticator (AP)
-- wpa_supplicant configures encryption keys for unicast and broadcast
-- normal data packets can be transmitted and received
-
-
-
-Building and installing
------------------------
-
-In order to be able to build wpa_supplicant, you will first need to
-select which parts of it will be included. This is done by creating a
-build time configuration file, .config, in the wpa_supplicant root
-directory. Configuration options are text lines using following
-format: CONFIG_<option>=y. Lines starting with # are considered
-comments and are ignored. See defconfig file for an example configuration
-and a list of available options and additional notes.
-
-The build time configuration can be used to select only the needed
-features and limit the binary size and requirements for external
-libraries. The main configuration parts are the selection of which
-driver interfaces (e.g., hostap, madwifi, ..) and which authentication
-methods (e.g., EAP-TLS, EAP-PEAP, ..) are included.
-
-Following build time configuration options are used to control IEEE
-802.1X/EAPOL and EAP state machines and all EAP methods. Including
-TLS, PEAP, or TTLS will require linking wpa_supplicant with OpenSSL
-library for TLS implementation. Alternatively, GnuTLS or the internal
-TLSv1 implementation can be used for TLS functionaly.
-
-CONFIG_IEEE8021X_EAPOL=y
-CONFIG_EAP_MD5=y
-CONFIG_EAP_MSCHAPV2=y
-CONFIG_EAP_TLS=y
-CONFIG_EAP_PEAP=y
-CONFIG_EAP_TTLS=y
-CONFIG_EAP_GTC=y
-CONFIG_EAP_OTP=y
-CONFIG_EAP_SIM=y
-CONFIG_EAP_AKA=y
-CONFIG_EAP_PSK=y
-CONFIG_EAP_SAKE=y
-CONFIG_EAP_GPSK=y
-CONFIG_EAP_PAX=y
-CONFIG_EAP_LEAP=y
-
-Following option can be used to include GSM SIM/USIM interface for GSM/UMTS
-authentication algorithm (for EAP-SIM/EAP-AKA). This requires pcsc-lite
-(http://www.linuxnet.com/) for smart card access.
-
-CONFIG_PCSC=y
-
-Following options can be added to .config to select which driver
-interfaces are included. Hermes driver interface needs to be downloaded
-from Agere (see above). CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXTENSION will be used
-automatically if any of the selected drivers need it.
-
-CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXTENSION=y
-CONFIG_DRIVER_HOSTAP=y
-CONFIG_DRIVER_HERMES=y
-CONFIG_DRIVER_MADWIFI=y
-CONFIG_DRIVER_ATMEL=y
-CONFIG_DRIVER_WEXT=y
-CONFIG_DRIVER_NDISWRAPPER=y
-CONFIG_DRIVER_BROADCOM=y
-CONFIG_DRIVER_IPW=y
-CONFIG_DRIVER_BSD=y
-CONFIG_DRIVER_NDIS=y
-
-Following example includes all features and driver interfaces that are
-included in the wpa_supplicant package:
-
-CONFIG_DRIVER_HOSTAP=y
-CONFIG_DRIVER_HERMES=y
-CONFIG_DRIVER_MADWIFI=y
-CONFIG_DRIVER_ATMEL=y
-CONFIG_DRIVER_WEXT=y
-CONFIG_DRIVER_NDISWRAPPER=y
-CONFIG_DRIVER_BROADCOM=y
-CONFIG_DRIVER_IPW=y
-CONFIG_DRIVER_BSD=y
-CONFIG_DRIVER_NDIS=y
-CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXTENSION=y
-CONFIG_IEEE8021X_EAPOL=y
-CONFIG_EAP_MD5=y
-CONFIG_EAP_MSCHAPV2=y
-CONFIG_EAP_TLS=y
-CONFIG_EAP_PEAP=y
-CONFIG_EAP_TTLS=y
-CONFIG_EAP_GTC=y
-CONFIG_EAP_OTP=y
-CONFIG_EAP_SIM=y
-CONFIG_EAP_AKA=y
-CONFIG_EAP_PSK=y
-CONFIG_EAP_SAKE=y
-CONFIG_EAP_GPSK=y
-CONFIG_EAP_PAX=y
-CONFIG_EAP_LEAP=y
-CONFIG_PCSC=y
-
-EAP-PEAP and EAP-TTLS will automatically include configured EAP
-methods (MD5, OTP, GTC, MSCHAPV2) for inner authentication selection.
-
-
-After you have created a configuration file, you can build
-wpa_supplicant and wpa_cli with 'make' command. You may then install
-the binaries to a suitable system directory, e.g., /usr/local/bin.
-
-Example commands:
-
-# build wpa_supplicant and wpa_cli
-make
-# install binaries (this may need root privileges)
-cp wpa_cli wpa_supplicant /usr/local/bin
-
-
-You will need to make a configuration file, e.g.,
-/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf, with network configuration for the networks
-you are going to use. Configuration file section below includes
-explanation fo the configuration file format and includes various
-examples. Once the configuration is ready, you can test whether the
-configuration work by first running wpa_supplicant with following
-command to start it on foreground with debugging enabled:
-
-wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d
-
-Assuming everything goes fine, you can start using following command
-to start wpa_supplicant on background without debugging:
-
-wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B
-
-Please note that if you included more than one driver interface in the
-build time configuration (.config), you may need to specify which
-interface to use by including -D<driver name> option on the command
-line. See following section for more details on command line options
-for wpa_supplicant.
-
-
-
-Command line options
---------------------
-
-usage:
- wpa_supplicant [-BddfhKLqqtuvwW] [-P<pid file>] [-g<global ctrl>] \
- -i<ifname> -c<config file> [-C<ctrl>] [-D<driver>] [-p<driver_param>] \
- [-b<br_ifname> [-N -i<ifname> -c<conf> [-C<ctrl>] [-D<driver>] \
- [-p<driver_param>] [-b<br_ifname>] ...]
-
-options:
- -b = optional bridge interface name
- -B = run daemon in the background
- -c = Configuration file
- -C = ctrl_interface parameter (only used if -c is not)
- -i = interface name
- -d = increase debugging verbosity (-dd even more)
- -D = driver name
- -f = Log output to default log location (normally /tmp)
- -g = global ctrl_interface
- -K = include keys (passwords, etc.) in debug output
- -t = include timestamp in debug messages
- -h = show this help text
- -L = show license (GPL and BSD)
- -p = driver parameters
- -P = PID file
- -q = decrease debugging verbosity (-qq even less)
- -v = show version
- -w = wait for interface to be added, if needed
- -W = wait for a control interface monitor before starting
- -N = start describing new interface
-
-drivers:
- hostap = Host AP driver (Intersil Prism2/2.5/3) [default]
- (this can also be used with Linuxant DriverLoader)
- hermes = Agere Systems Inc. driver (Hermes-I/Hermes-II)
- madwifi = MADWIFI 802.11 support (Atheros, etc.)
- atmel = ATMEL AT76C5XXx (USB, PCMCIA)
- wext = Linux wireless extensions (generic)
- ndiswrapper = Linux ndiswrapper
- broadcom = Broadcom wl.o driver
- ipw = Intel ipw2100/2200 driver (old; use wext with Linux 2.6.13 or newer)
- wired = wpa_supplicant wired Ethernet driver
- bsd = BSD 802.11 support (Atheros, etc.)
- ndis = Windows NDIS driver
-
-In most common cases, wpa_supplicant is started with
-
-wpa_supplicant -Bw -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlan0
-
-This makes the process fork into background and wait for the wlan0
-interface if it is not available at startup time.
-
-The easiest way to debug problems, and to get debug log for bug
-reports, is to start wpa_supplicant on foreground with debugging
-enabled:
-
-wpa_supplicant -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlan0 -d
-
-
-wpa_supplicant can control multiple interfaces (radios) either by
-running one process for each interface separately or by running just
-one process and list of options at command line. Each interface is
-separated with -N argument. As an example, following command would
-start wpa_supplicant for two interfaces:
-
-wpa_supplicant \
- -c wpa1.conf -i wlan0 -D hostap -N \
- -c wpa2.conf -i ath0 -D madwifi
-
-
-If the interface is added in a Linux bridge (e.g., br0), the bridge
-interface needs to be configured to wpa_supplicant in addition to the
-main interface:
-
-wpa_supplicant -cw.conf -Dmadwifi -iath0 -bbr0
-
-
-Configuration file
-------------------
-
-wpa_supplicant is configured using a text file that lists all accepted
-networks and security policies, including pre-shared keys. See
-example configuration file, wpa_supplicant.conf, for detailed
-information about the configuration format and supported fields.
-
-Changes to configuration file can be reloaded be sending SIGHUP signal
-to wpa_supplicant ('killall -HUP wpa_supplicant'). Similarly,
-reloading can be triggered with 'wpa_cli reconfigure' command.
-
-Configuration file can include one or more network blocks, e.g., one
-for each used SSID. wpa_supplicant will automatically select the best
-betwork based on the order of network blocks in the configuration
-file, network security level (WPA/WPA2 is preferred), and signal
-strength.
-
-Example configuration files for some common configurations:
-
-1) WPA-Personal (PSK) as home network and WPA-Enterprise with EAP-TLS as work
- network
-
-# allow frontend (e.g., wpa_cli) to be used by all users in 'wheel' group
-ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
-ctrl_interface_group=wheel
-#
-# home network; allow all valid ciphers
-network={
- ssid="home"
- scan_ssid=1
- key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
- psk="very secret passphrase"
-}
-#
-# work network; use EAP-TLS with WPA; allow only CCMP and TKIP ciphers
-network={
- ssid="work"
- scan_ssid=1
- key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
- pairwise=CCMP TKIP
- group=CCMP TKIP
- eap=TLS
- identity="user@example.com"
- ca_cert="/etc/cert/ca.pem"
- client_cert="/etc/cert/user.pem"
- private_key="/etc/cert/user.prv"
- private_key_passwd="password"
-}
-
-
-2) WPA-RADIUS/EAP-PEAP/MSCHAPv2 with RADIUS servers that use old peaplabel
- (e.g., Funk Odyssey and SBR, Meetinghouse Aegis, Interlink RAD-Series)
-
-ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
-ctrl_interface_group=wheel
-network={
- ssid="example"
- scan_ssid=1
- key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
- eap=PEAP
- identity="user@example.com"
- password="foobar"
- ca_cert="/etc/cert/ca.pem"
- phase1="peaplabel=0"
- phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
-}
-
-
-3) EAP-TTLS/EAP-MD5-Challenge configuration with anonymous identity for the
- unencrypted use. Real identity is sent only within an encrypted TLS tunnel.
-
-ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
-ctrl_interface_group=wheel
-network={
- ssid="example"
- scan_ssid=1
- key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
- eap=TTLS
- identity="user@example.com"
- anonymous_identity="anonymous@example.com"
- password="foobar"
- ca_cert="/etc/cert/ca.pem"
- phase2="auth=MD5"
-}
-
-
-4) IEEE 802.1X (i.e., no WPA) with dynamic WEP keys (require both unicast and
- broadcast); use EAP-TLS for authentication
-
-ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
-ctrl_interface_group=wheel
-network={
- ssid="1x-test"
- scan_ssid=1
- key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
- eap=TLS
- identity="user@example.com"
- ca_cert="/etc/cert/ca.pem"
- client_cert="/etc/cert/user.pem"
- private_key="/etc/cert/user.prv"
- private_key_passwd="password"
- eapol_flags=3
-}
-
-
-5) Catch all example that allows more or less all configuration modes. The
- configuration options are used based on what security policy is used in the
- selected SSID. This is mostly for testing and is not recommended for normal
- use.
-
-ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
-ctrl_interface_group=wheel
-network={
- ssid="example"
- scan_ssid=1
- key_mgmt=WPA-EAP WPA-PSK IEEE8021X NONE
- pairwise=CCMP TKIP
- group=CCMP TKIP WEP104 WEP40
- psk="very secret passphrase"
- eap=TTLS PEAP TLS
- identity="user@example.com"
- password="foobar"
- ca_cert="/etc/cert/ca.pem"
- client_cert="/etc/cert/user.pem"
- private_key="/etc/cert/user.prv"
- private_key_passwd="password"
- phase1="peaplabel=0"
- ca_cert2="/etc/cert/ca2.pem"
- client_cert2="/etc/cer/user.pem"
- private_key2="/etc/cer/user.prv"
- private_key2_passwd="password"
-}
-
-
-6) Authentication for wired Ethernet. This can be used with 'wired' interface
- (-Dwired on command line).
-
-ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
-ctrl_interface_group=wheel
-ap_scan=0
-network={
- key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
- eap=MD5
- identity="user"
- password="password"
- eapol_flags=0
-}
-
-
-
-Certificates
-------------
-
-Some EAP authentication methods require use of certificates. EAP-TLS
-uses both server side and client certificates whereas EAP-PEAP and
-EAP-TTLS only require the server side certificate. When client
-certificate is used, a matching private key file has to also be
-included in configuration. If the private key uses a passphrase, this
-has to be configured in wpa_supplicant.conf ("private_key_passwd").
-
-wpa_supplicant supports X.509 certificates in PEM and DER
-formats. User certificate and private key can be included in the same
-file.
-
-If the user certificate and private key is received in PKCS#12/PFX
-format, they need to be converted to suitable PEM/DER format for
-wpa_supplicant. This can be done, e.g., with following commands:
-
-# convert client certificate and private key to PEM format
-openssl pkcs12 -in example.pfx -out user.pem -clcerts
-# convert CA certificate (if included in PFX file) to PEM format
-openssl pkcs12 -in example.pfx -out ca.pem -cacerts -nokeys
-
-
-
-wpa_cli
--------
-
-wpa_cli is a text-based frontend program for interacting with
-wpa_supplicant. It is used to query current status, change
-configuration, trigger events, and request interactive user input.
-
-wpa_cli can show the current authentication status, selected security
-mode, dot11 and dot1x MIBs, etc. In addition, it can configure some
-variables like EAPOL state machine parameters and trigger events like
-reassociation and IEEE 802.1X logoff/logon. wpa_cli provides a user
-interface to request authentication information, like username and
-password, if these are not included in the configuration. This can be
-used to implement, e.g., one-time-passwords or generic token card
-authentication where the authentication is based on a
-challenge-response that uses an external device for generating the
-response.
-
-The control interface of wpa_supplicant can be configured to allow
-non-root user access (ctrl_interface_group in the configuration
-file). This makes it possible to run wpa_cli with a normal user
-account.
-
-wpa_cli supports two modes: interactive and command line. Both modes
-share the same command set and the main difference is in interactive
-mode providing access to unsolicited messages (event messages,
-username/password requests).
-
-Interactive mode is started when wpa_cli is executed without including
-the command as a command line parameter. Commands are then entered on
-the wpa_cli prompt. In command line mode, the same commands are
-entered as command line arguments for wpa_cli.
-
-
-Interactive authentication parameters request
-
-When wpa_supplicant need authentication parameters, like username and
-password, which are not present in the configuration file, it sends a
-request message to all attached frontend programs, e.g., wpa_cli in
-interactive mode. wpa_cli shows these requests with
-"CTRL-REQ-<type>-<id>:<text>" prefix. <type> is IDENTITY, PASSWORD, or
-OTP (one-time-password). <id> is a unique identifier for the current
-network. <text> is description of the request. In case of OTP request,
-it includes the challenge from the authentication server.
-
-The reply to these requests can be given with 'identity', 'password',
-and 'otp' commands. <id> needs to be copied from the the matching
-request. 'password' and 'otp' commands can be used regardless of
-whether the request was for PASSWORD or OTP. The main difference
-between these two commands is that values given with 'password' are
-remembered as long as wpa_supplicant is running whereas values given
-with 'otp' are used only once and then forgotten, i.e., wpa_supplicant
-will ask frontend for a new value for every use. This can be used to
-implement one-time-password lists and generic token card -based
-authentication.
-
-Example request for password and a matching reply:
-
-CTRL-REQ-PASSWORD-1:Password needed for SSID foobar
-> password 1 mysecretpassword
-
-Example request for generic token card challenge-response:
-
-CTRL-REQ-OTP-2:Challenge 1235663 needed for SSID foobar
-> otp 2 9876
-
-
-wpa_cli commands
-
- status = get current WPA/EAPOL/EAP status
- mib = get MIB variables (dot1x, dot11)
- help = show this usage help
- interface [ifname] = show interfaces/select interface
- level <debug level> = change debug level
- license = show full wpa_cli license
- logoff = IEEE 802.1X EAPOL state machine logoff
- logon = IEEE 802.1X EAPOL state machine logon
- set = set variables (shows list of variables when run without arguments)
- pmksa = show PMKSA cache
- reassociate = force reassociation
- reconfigure = force wpa_supplicant to re-read its configuration file
- preauthenticate <BSSID> = force preauthentication
- identity <network id> <identity> = configure identity for an SSID
- password <network id> <password> = configure password for an SSID
- pin <network id> <pin> = configure pin for an SSID
- otp <network id> <password> = configure one-time-password for an SSID
- passphrase <network id> <passphrase> = configure private key passphrase
- for an SSID
- bssid <network id> <BSSID> = set preferred BSSID for an SSID
- list_networks = list configured networks
- select_network <network id> = select a network (disable others)
- enable_network <network id> = enable a network
- disable_network <network id> = disable a network
- add_network = add a network
- remove_network <network id> = remove a network
- set_network <network id> <variable> <value> = set network variables (shows
- list of variables when run without arguments)
- get_network <network id> <variable> = get network variables
- save_config = save the current configuration
- disconnect = disconnect and wait for reassociate command before connecting
- scan = request new BSS scan
- scan_results = get latest scan results
- get_capability <eap/pairwise/group/key_mgmt/proto/auth_alg> = get capabilies
- terminate = terminate wpa_supplicant
- quit = exit wpa_cli
-
-
-wpa_cli command line options
-
-wpa_cli [-p<path to ctrl sockets>] [-i<ifname>] [-hvB] [-a<action file>] \
- [-P<pid file>] [-g<global ctrl>] [command..]
- -h = help (show this usage text)
- -v = shown version information
- -a = run in daemon mode executing the action file based on events from
- wpa_supplicant
- -B = run a daemon in the background
- default path: /var/run/wpa_supplicant
- default interface: first interface found in socket path
-
-
-Using wpa_cli to run external program on connect/disconnect
------------------------------------------------------------
-
-wpa_cli can used to run external programs whenever wpa_supplicant
-connects or disconnects from a network. This can be used, e.g., to
-update network configuration and/or trigget DHCP client to update IP
-addresses, etc.
-
-One wpa_cli process in "action" mode needs to be started for each
-interface. For example, the following command starts wpa_cli for the
-default ingterface (-i can be used to select the interface in case of
-more than one interface being used at the same time):
-
-wpa_cli -a/sbin/wpa_action.sh -B
-
-The action file (-a option, /sbin/wpa_action.sh in this example) will
-be executed whenever wpa_supplicant completes authentication (connect
-event) or detects disconnection). The action script will be called
-with two command line arguments: interface name and event (CONNECTED
-or DISCONNECTED). If the action script needs to get more information
-about the current network, it can use 'wpa_cli status' to query
-wpa_supplicant for more information.
-
-Following example can be used as a simple template for an action
-script:
-
-#!/bin/sh
-
-IFNAME=$1
-CMD=$2
-
-if [ "$CMD" == "CONNECTED" ]; then
- SSID=`wpa_cli -i$IFNAME status | grep ^ssid= | cut -f2- -d=`
- # configure network, signal DHCP client, etc.
-fi
-
-if [ "$CMD" == "DISCONNECTED" ]; then
- # remove network configuration, if needed
-fi
-
-
-
-Integrating with pcmcia-cs/cardmgr scripts
-------------------------------------------
-
-wpa_supplicant needs to be running when using a wireless network with
-WPA. It can be started either from system startup scripts or from
-pcmcia-cs/cardmgr scripts (when using PC Cards). WPA handshake must be
-completed before data frames can be exchanged, so wpa_supplicant
-should be started before DHCP client.
-
-Command line option '-w' can be used if wpa_supplicant is started
-before the wireless LAN interface is present (e.g., before inserting
-the PC Card) or is not yet up.
-
-For example, following small changes to pcmcia-cs scripts can be used
-to enable WPA support:
-
-Add MODE="Managed" and WPA="y" to the network scheme in
-/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts.
-
-Add the following block to the end of 'start' action handler in
-/etc/pcmcia/wireless:
-
- if [ "$WPA" = "y" -a -x /usr/local/bin/wpa_supplicant ]; then
- /usr/local/bin/wpa_supplicant -Bw -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf \
- -i$DEVICE
- fi
-
-Add the following block to the end of 'stop' action handler (may need
-to be separated from other actions) in /etc/pcmcia/wireless:
-
- if [ "$WPA" = "y" -a -x /usr/local/bin/wpa_supplicant ]; then
- killall wpa_supplicant
- fi
-
-This will make cardmgr start wpa_supplicant when the card is plugged
-in. wpa_supplicant will wait until the interface is set up--either
-when a static IP address is configured or when DHCP client is
-started--and will then negotiate keys with the AP.
-
-
-
-Dynamic interface add and operation without configuration files
----------------------------------------------------------------
-
-wpa_supplicant can be started without any configuration files or
-network interfaces. When used in this way, a global (i.e., per
-wpa_supplicant process) control interface is used to add and remove
-network interfaces. Each network interface can then be configured
-through a per-network interface control interface. For example,
-following commands show how to start wpa_supplicant without any
-network interfaces and then add a network interface and configure a
-network (SSID):
-
-# Start wpa_supplicant in the background
-wpa_supplicant -g/var/run/wpa_supplicant-global -B
-
-# Add a new interface (wlan0, no configuration file, driver=wext, and
-# enable control interface)
-wpa_cli -g/var/run/wpa_supplicant-global interface_add wlan0 \
- "" wext /var/run/wpa_supplicant
-
-# Configure a network using the newly added network interface:
-wpa_cli -iwlan0 add_network
-wpa_cli -iwlan0 set_network 0 ssid '"test"'
-wpa_cli -iwlan0 set_network 0 key_mgmt WPA-PSK
-wpa_cli -iwlan0 set_network 0 psk '"12345678"'
-wpa_cli -iwlan0 set_network 0 pairwise TKIP
-wpa_cli -iwlan0 set_network 0 group TKIP
-wpa_cli -iwlan0 set_network 0 proto WPA
-wpa_cli -iwlan0 enable_network 0
-
-# At this point, the new network interface should start trying to associate
-# with the WPA-PSK network using SSID test.
-
-# Remove network interface
-wpa_cli -g/var/run/wpa_supplicant-global interface_remove wlan0
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