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wifi on debian standard install

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I found out wpa_passphrase is on the debian disk1 though located in /sbin 
not /usr/bin.  I also found after having run wpa_passphrase and copying 
the hex string password from its output and replacing the insecure 
passphrase left in /etc/network/interfaces once that file had been copied 
to the hard drive that the connection ifup does still works.
So first thing for me to do is write up a step-wise procedure and then get 
an account so I can add it to the debian wiki.  It's possible to strip the 
hex out of wpa_passphrase output using tail and cut and save that in a 
temporary file for later use.  It may be possible to run a pipe directly 
into /etc/network/interfaces before system does first post-install boot 
and have the wifi network come up securely but I need to explore that 
further so what I offer to debian wiki will be as bulletproof as possible. 
I ended up doing a standard install since for whatever strange reason 
after desktop and mate got installed I could edit my network connection 
with nmtui but couldn't activate it.



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wifi on debian standard install Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2018-03-31 04:40 +0200

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