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  https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#wpa_supplicant peter@easthope.ca - 2017-03-08 06:00 +0100
    Re: https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#wpa_supplicant Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-03-08 06:30 +0100

#178563 — https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#wpa_supplicant

In the page cited in the Subject line, this example of output 
from the wpa_passphrase command is given. 

network={
        ssid="myssid"
        #psk="my_very_secret_passphrase"
        psk=ccb290fd4fe6b22935cbae31449e050edd02ad44627b16ce0151668f5f53c01b
}

Appears this is for an authentication where a password is necessary 
but there is no user ID or client ID.  Typically an access point can 
be accessed by multiple users and in some cases each user has an 
identity.  No mention of that here.  Can soneone please explain or 
give a link to a good explanation.

Thanks,                   ... Peter E.



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#178564

On Tue, 07 Mar 2017 20:39:22 -0800
peter@easthope.ca wrote:

> In the page cited in the Subject line, this example of output 
> from the wpa_passphrase command is given. 
> 
> network={
>         ssid="myssid"
>         #psk="my_very_secret_passphrase"
>         psk=ccb290fd4fe6b22935cbae31449e050edd02ad44627b16ce0151668f5f53c01b
> }
> 
> Appears this is for an authentication where a password is necessary 
> but there is no user ID or client ID.  Typically an access point can 
> be accessed by multiple users and in some cases each user has an 
> identity.  No mention of that here.  Can soneone please explain or 
> give a link to a good explanation.

WPA has two modes: "Personal" - PSK, and "Enterprise" - Radius. In the
former, probably used in the vast majority of home / personal use
cases, everyone shares one passphrase. In the latter, users do indeed
have different identities:

http://www.tp-link.com/us/FAQ-500.html

Celejar

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