Bug 2128846

Summary: RFE: add wpa_supplicant to dracut-network (RHEL8)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Matthew Brown <mabrown>
Component: dracutAssignee: dracut-maint-list
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Version: 8.8CC: david.sastre, dtardon, pvalena
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Comment 5 David Tardon 2023-01-23 12:58:19 UTC 
So, NM only invokes wpa_supplicant via D-Bus, as I supposed. Hence we'd have to backport dbus module (and run D-Bus in the initrd), which we don't want to do. What we could do, though, is to put wpa_supplicant into a separate module that'd only be included in the initrd if explicitly requested via configuration. Then only those who chose to use wpa_supplicant would get dbus.
Comment 7 Lukáš Nykrýn 2023-01-31 14:53:16 UTC 
As David mentioned, we don't have dbus in rhel8 initrd and since we changed the implementation of dbus (dbus-daemon vs. dbus-broker) so adding it to rhel8 is not a trivial task.
Also, we don't run NM as a daemon in rhel8 which is yet another hurdle.
Maybe we could run wpa-supplicant manually before NM. But the main question, where to store the password. Initrd is never encrypted.