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wpa_passphrase — Generate a WPA-PSK key from an ASCII passphrase for a SSID. More information: <https://manned.org/wp

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Problem

How to use the wpa_passphrase command: Generate a WPA-PSK key from an ASCII passphrase for a SSID. More information: <https://manned.org/wpa_passphrase.1>.

Solution

wpa_passphrase — Generate a WPA-PSK key from an ASCII passphrase for a SSID. More information: <https://manned.org/wpa_passphrase.1>.

Compute and display the WPA-PSK key for a given SSID reading the passphrase from stdin:
wpa_passphrase {{SSID}}


Compute and display WPA-PSK key for a given SSID specifying the passphrase as an argument:
wpa_passphrase {{SSID}} {{passphrase}}

Code Snippets

Compute and display the WPA-PSK key for a given SSID reading the passphrase from `stdin`

wpa_passphrase {{SSID}}

Compute and display WPA-PSK key for a given SSID specifying the passphrase as an argument

wpa_passphrase {{SSID}} {{passphrase}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/wpa_passphrase

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