wicd

  1. Bug #477323
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 477323

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Tom (2-launchpad-pertho-net) wrote :

I can confirm this also. I wanted to only stick in a hex PSK for my WPA2 wifi point and WICD wouldn't authenticate me properly. So I edit /etc/wicd/encryption/templates/wpa-psk and remove the quotes so the line reads: psk=$_APSK

Now it works and I don't have to use a passphrase which is stored in the clear.

v1.70 also has this bugged template. Is this by design? It's very confusing for users because a non-passphrase key is assumed to be hexadecimal. (I don't think I've seen an ASCII non-passphrase PSK!)

Could one of the developers clarify this? If we don't want to use the Passphrase facility and want to put in the key as generated by wpa_passphrase, wouldn't "WPA 1/2 (Passphrase)" be the place to do it?

I vote for the patch in 2nd comment down. Remove the quotes after psk= ... it breaks wpa_supplicant's way to authenticate with the wifi point.