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Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

From Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?
Date 2022-02-28 22:50 +0100
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Dearie

> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 4:20 AM
> From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?
>
>
> However, if I remember your original post correctly, there were security
> reasons mentioned (about a possibly world readable /etc/network/interfaces,
> and splitting out an .../interfaces.d/wlan0 as a fix), Note that by default
> (in Debian, at least) /etc/network/interfaces is only root-readable. So
> this wouldn't be the reason you'd want to do the split (there are other
> valid reasons, though).
>
According to Debian Wiki WiFi How To Use (https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse), the reason for doing the split is:

(sic) Restrict the permissions of /etc/network/interfaces, to prevent pre-shared key (PSK) disclosure

Best regards.

Stella

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What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-02-28 19:50 +0100
  Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-28 20:20 +0100
    Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-02-28 21:00 +0100
      Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? tomas@tuxteam.de - 2022-02-28 21:30 +0100
        Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-02-28 22:50 +0100
      Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-28 21:30 +0100
        Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-02-28 22:50 +0100
          Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? tomas@tuxteam.de - 2022-03-01 07:40 +0100
            Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-03-01 13:20 +0100
              Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-03-01 15:30 +0100
                Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-03-01 16:00 +0100
            Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-03-01 15:20 +0100
              Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-01 15:50 +0100
      Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2022-03-01 13:20 +0100
        Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-01 13:30 +0100
          Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-03-01 15:40 +0100
            Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-01 15:50 +0100
        Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-03-01 15:40 +0100
          Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2022-03-01 15:50 +0100
            Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-03-01 16:00 +0100
              Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2022-03-01 16:40 +0100
                wikis: moin-moin : plain text (was: Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-03-03 14:50 +0100
                Re: wikis: moin-moin : plain text (was: Re: What should I put inside  the file called wlan0?) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-03-03 15:00 +0100
                Re: wikis: moin-moin : plain text (was: Re: What should I put inside  the file called wlan0?) Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2022-03-03 15:50 +0100
      Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-03-01 17:30 +0100
        Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-03-02 09:10 +0100
          Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-03-02 19:00 +0100
            Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-03-03 09:00 +0100
              Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2022-03-03 12:30 +0100
                Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-03-03 19:30 +0100
                Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-03-03 19:50 +0100
                Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-03-03 20:00 +0100
            Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-03-03 17:00 +0100
              Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-03-03 19:50 +0100
                Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-03 21:00 +0100
                Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-03-08 16:20 +0100
            Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-03-03 19:40 +0100
              Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-03-03 19:50 +0100
                Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-03-03 20:00 +0100
                Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-03-03 20:00 +0100
          Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-03-08 16:20 +0100
  Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-02-28 21:10 +0100
    Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-02-28 21:20 +0100
      Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-03-01 00:20 +0100
        Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-03-01 06:10 +0100
          Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Markus Schönhaber <debian-user@list-post.mks-mail.de> - 2022-03-01 09:00 +0100
            Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-03-01 12:10 +0100
        Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-01 07:50 +0100
  Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2022-02-28 22:20 +0100
    Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Ash Joubert <ash@transient.nz> - 2022-02-28 23:50 +0100
      Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-03-01 00:50 +0100
        Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-03-01 10:30 +0100
        Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Ash Joubert <ash@transient.nz> - 2022-03-01 22:20 +0100
      Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-03-01 06:10 +0100
    Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-03-01 00:50 +0100
      Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2022-03-01 10:50 +0100

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