Ubuntu
wpasupplicant package

If wpa_supplicant's wpa-psk option is not quoted in /etc/network/interfaces, it is silently accepted, parsed incorrectly and fails to authenticate

Bug #1077748 reported by Ryan C. Underwood
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Bug Description

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
        wpa-ssid "myessid"
        wpa-psk "......"

works.

This does not work:

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
        wpa-ssid myessid
        wpa-psk ......

The failure is silent and can only be detected by entering wpa_cli and observing the "4-way handshake failed" messages. If it is impossible to accept a wpa-psk that is not quoted, it should fail loudly in this case.

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Ryan C. Underwood (nemesis-icequake) wrote :

Here is the Gentoo thread in which I located the solution by sheer chance:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-851897-start-0.html

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Stéphane Graber (stgraber) wrote :

Those options don't come from ifupdown but from the wpasupplicant plugin

affects: ifupdown (Ubuntu) → wpasupplicant (Ubuntu)
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