Hi, I’m trying to write a front-end wrapper that handles a subset of wpa_supplicant configuration. I’m attempting to encode an arbitrary ASCII PSK and am getting hung up on a password that contains a single quote. I am able to satisfy the requirement of having what I would consider a sufficiently complex SSID including pizza and unicorn emojis, single and double quotes backslashes, whitespace, and an octothorp. For example, the SSID \#"\ ' 🍕🦄 appears in the output of wpa scan_results as: \\#\"\\ '\xf0\x9f\x8d\x95\xf0\x9f\xa6\x84 This works fine against wpa_passphrase if I use $’<ssid>’ by escaping the only single quote in the SSID, i.e. wpa_passphrase $'\\#\"\\ \'\xf0\x9f\x8d\x95\xf0\x9f\xa6\x84’ $'<somestring>'. In order to get this SSID to work, I have to specify it with the ssid=P syntax in wpa_supplicant.conf, which is fine. My issue is that I cannot seem to get a password with a single quote in it to work using $’<passphrase>’ as the second argument to wpa_passphrase. For example, if my password is: aaaabbbccc #\ " $ '!. I believe that: wpa_passphrase $'\\#\"\\ \'\xf0\x9f\x8d\x95\xf0\x9f\xa6\x84’ $'aaaabbbccc #\ " $ \’!’ Should effectively escape the single quote in the password to compute the hashed PSK, however it does not work when attempting to connect. Similarly, if I remove the single quote from the passphrase on the router itself, and compute the key using wpa_passphrase $'\\#\"\\ \'\xf0\x9f\x8d\x95\xf0\x9f\xa6\x84’ $'aaaabbbccc #\ " $ !’ It works fine. I know the router supports a single quote in the passphrase as I can connect to it from a another device when the single quote configured. I have tried using both stdin and the second argument to provide the password to wpa_supplicant and both fail. I am wondering if this may be a bug in wpa_passphrase. I am using bash 4.4.12(1)-release and wpa_supplicant v2.4. Any insight on resolving this issue would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Dan Sullivan _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
