On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 10:31:59AM -0500, npiazza@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Instead of having passwords stored plain text in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf > would it be possible to use a password command there, along the lines of > > password="/usr/bin/pass name@email" > psk="/usr/bin/pass other@email" There are multiple different ways of storing passwords in external locations, e.g., by not using a configuration file at all and instead configuring the passwords over the control interface or by using an external password backend (see ext_password_backend and ext:<name>). That latter option could be used to implement something similar to what you seem to describe here. > The init scheme then takes care of operating wpa_supplicant as my > user, rather than root. I'm not sure how that is related to how the passwords are stored. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
