Bug 25871

Summary:	man wpa_supplicant.conf omits the ssid=P".." option
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	w unruh <unruh>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thomas Backlund <tmb>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	thierry.vignaud
Version:	7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	wpa_supplicant-2.9-1.1.mga7.src.rpm , drakx-net-2.42-1.mga7.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description w unruh 2019-12-13 22:17:07 CET

Description of problem: If and ssid contains hex characters
(for example the ssid I ran across in Brazil

ppgf_audit\xc3\xe3io_LPF

then onee must enter it into /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf with the format
ssid=P"ppgf_audit\xc3\xe3io_LPF"
The P indicates that the string is not just a string but has a special format.

This should be indicated in the man page

See:http//lists.infradead.org/pipermail/hostap/2012-August/026461.html
where Jouni Malinen announces this new format (in about a hidden a way as possible).

Ie, the man page needs to be edited to add this option, expecially since the non-ascii world is using computers these days.

Also, as suggested in 25720 it would probably be worthwhile to make the P option the default in Network Center.

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2019-12-14 21:31:53 CET

Thank you for discovering this.
See also bug 25720.

Repeated to make a clickable URL:
 http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/hostap/2012-August/026461.html
Search for this line:
 wpa_cli set_network 0 ssid 'P"test\x00abc"'
Hidden way indeed!
Assigning as that other bug to tmb; CC tv for: drakx-net-2.42-1.mga7.src.rpm

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Assignee: bugsquad => tmb

Comment 2 Aurelien Oudelet 2021-07-06 13:16:11 CEST

Mageia 7 is EOL since July 1st 2021.
There will not have any further bugfix for this release.

You are encouraged to upgrade to Mageia 8 as soon as possible.

@reporter, if this bug still apply with Mageia 8, please let us know it.

@packager, if you work on the Mageia 7 version of your package, please check the Mageia 8 package if issue is also present. In this case, please fix the Mageia 8 version instead.

This bug report will be closed OLD if there is no further notice within 1st September 2021.

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2021-09-07 14:10:01 CEST

Hi bug reporter and hi assignee and others involved,

Please reopen this bug report if it is still valid for Mageia 8 or 9(cauldron), and change "Version:" in the upper left of this report accordingly.

This report is being closed as OLD because it was filed against Mageia 7, for which  support ended on June 30th 2021.

Thanks,
Marja

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD