Ubuntu
netcfg package

  1. Bug #14392
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 14392

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Thomas Hood (jdthood) wrote : Re: WEP key stored in world-readable /etc/network/interfaces

Regarding the WEP-keys-in-separate-file idea, I just checked the Debian BTS
and found that that idea has already been suggested in #295581 and rejected
there by the Debian maintainer. He wants the user to do this instead:

 pre-up iwconfig $IFACE key `cat keyfile`

Not terribly user-friendly.