[pkg-wpa-devel] Introducing a wpa_supplicant group?

Kyle McMartin kyle at mcmartin.ca
Sun Apr 9 22:50:17 UTC 2006


On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 12:01:17AM +0200, Felix Homann wrote:
> what do you think about a wpasupplicant group? I think that using 
> wpa_gui/wpa_cli by non-root-users should be encouraged. Creating such a group 
> and dropping a note about the  ctrl_interface_group option in 
> wpa_supplicant.conf could help in that.
>

This is a pretty sane idea. I originally put wpa_gui in /usr/sbin
on the premise that it wouldn't be accessible to normal users, but some
people don't allow root access to $DISPLAY, etc.



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