DHCPCD-CURSES(8)

📦 version 0.7.9, in alpine 3.24

💅 DHCPCD-CURSES(8) — the cute little curses frontend page, bestie edition

okay so real quick, this is a page from the System Manager's Manual — yes, the (8) kind, the admin-y ones — and it's all about dhcpcd-curses. sit down, grab a strawberry drink 🍓, we're doing network config the pretty way.

✨ NAME ✨

dhcpcd-curses — a curses frontend for network configuration 🌈

like, a whole little terminal UI for your network. yes please.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

dhcpcd-curses is a curses frontend for network configuration. it does the glow-up on your network setup so you're not out here typing raw config into the void. 💅

it's not doing the heavy lifting alone though — it uses dhcpcd(8) and wpa_supplicant(8) as backends. so it's giving main character energy, but the backend besties are doing the actual work. iconic teamwork fr fr 🫶

⚠️ important vibe check: if dhcpcd-curses is used to make configuration changes, then the user needs to be able to write to the privileged dhcpcd control socket. so yeah, permissions. they're a thing. see dhcpcd.conf(5) for the details, no cap.

🦋 wpa_supplicant

dhcpcd-curses relies on wpa_supplicant(8) being configured to write its sockets to /var/run/wpa_supplicant. that's the location, that's the assignment, don't move it. 😭

and if dhcpcd-curses is used to select and set pass phrases for wireless networks, then update_config=1 needs to be set in wpa_supplicant.conf. literally just that one setting. do it and slay ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read these too, they're the supporting cast and they ate:

🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

Roy Marples <roy@marples.name> — the legend who made this happen 💜

💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? bestie please don't suffer in silence — report it to http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd-ui 🙈

okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 — this cutie came from Debian, dated January 7, 2015, so yeah she's been around and she's still serving. go configure something gorgeous 🧚‍♀️⭐

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