WPA_PASSPHRASE(8)

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💖 WPA_PASSPHRASE 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the wpa_passphrase page — it's section 8 of the manual, so it's a sysadmin/system-utility vibe, and honestly? iconic. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

wpa_passphrase — Generate a WPA PSK from an ASCII passphrase for a SSID 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

wpa_passphrase [ ssid ] [ passphrase ]

🦋 OVERVIEW 🦋

so like, wpa_passphrase pre-computes PSK entries for network configuration blocks of a wpa_supplicant.conf file. no cap, that's literally its whole job. 🫶

you give it an ASCII passphrase and an SSID, and it generates a 256-bit PSK for you. that's it. that's the girlboss move. ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • ssid — the SSID whose passphrase should be derived. like, whose wifi are we talking about, bestie? 🍓
  • passphrase — the passphrase to use. if you don't put it on the command line, passphrase will be read from standard input. so it's giving "type it in after, no biggie" energy. 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

wpa_supplicant is copyright (c) 2003-2022, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and contributors. All Rights Reserved.

this program is licensed under the BSD license (the one with advertisement clause removed). periodt. 💅

💀 fr fr, that copyright line is not a vibe I'm skipping — legal stays legal, bestie.

okay and for the cute sign-off: this page is dated 07 August 2019, and it lives in the wpa_passphrase(8) corner of the manual. mwah. 🎀✨💖

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