On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 06:22:00PM BST, Brian wrote: > > You don't, for simple setup that is indeed enough. > > If you have several wireless networks you can keep your interfaces file > > tidy and organised, not to mention that roaming mode won't work without > > wpa_supplicant.conf file. > > Yes, I'd agree with that; it gives a very flexible and powerful > configuration, especially if wpagui is also used. However, if one has > been stumbling along there is something to be said for walking before > running.
Keeping things in one place is a good practice IMHO. Security is another - /etc/network/interfaces is world readable by default. Better keep settings like passphrase or PSK in one, root readable file. > > I also recommend actual PSK rather than passphrase. > > I'm unsure of the advantage this brings as an ASCII passphrase is > converted to a 64 hex string internally anyway. A disadvantage is passing > an incomprehensible PSK on to someone to allow a connection to a network. Main advantage - you're not keeping your passphrase in clear text on your filesystem. PSK is precomputed from a passphrase for a specific SSID and passphrase cannot be quantified from it. There's no disadvantage as you can still use the passphrase, there's no need to pass the long PSK. Regards, -- Raf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111029103737.ga15...@linuxstuff.pl
