Description of problem: 802.11 networks can be either "restricted" or "open". Not only is "restricted" a security nightmare (see URL for archive link about the badness of Shared Key Authentication), there is no standard way to set "open" or "restricted" in the current ifup-wireless. Additionally, it was mentioned that different drivers/versions may default to a different security mode if it is not explicitly set. I suggest there at least be a standard way to set this security mode, and have it default to "open". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 8.03-1 Expected results: Implement this: SECURITYMODE="open" or SECURITYMODE="restricted" to cause ifup-wireless to invoke: iwconfig $DEVICE enc $SECURITYMODE Additional info: It is possible to achieve this effect with this option: IWCONFIG="enc open" but it would be nice to not have to rely upon this, so that the setting is more easily exposed in a GUI such as s-c-network, and used by NetworkManager.
Added in 8.08-1. Note that NM doesn't have anything to do with ifup-wireless.