Bug 145407 - ifup-wireless should allow the security mode to be set
Summary: ifup-wireless should allow the security mode to be set
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: initscripts
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedor...
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Blocks: FC4Target
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-01-18 01:33 UTC by Charles R. Anderson
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:51 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 8.08-1
Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2005-04-15 20:02:36 UTC
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Description Charles R. Anderson 2005-01-18 01:33:58 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-04-15 20:02:36 UTC
Added in 8.08-1. Note that NM doesn't have anything to do with ifup-wireless.


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