NAME
hostapd - IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator
SYNOPSIS
hostapd [-hdBKtv] [-P <PID file>] <configuration file(s)>
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the hostapd daemon.
hostapd is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers. It implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticators and RADIUS authentication server. The current version supports Linux (Host AP, mac80211-based drivers) and FreeBSD (net80211).
hostapd is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the background and acts as the backend component controlling authentication. hostapd supports separate frontend programs and an example text-based frontend, hostapd_cli, is included with hostapd.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, run hostapd from the command line.
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-h |
Show usage. |
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-d |
Show more debug messages. |
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-dd |
Show even more debug messages. |
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-B |
Run daemon in the background. |
-P <PID file>
Path to PID file.
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-K |
Include key data in debug messages. |
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-t |
Include timestamps in some debug messages. |
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-v |
Show hostapd version. |
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
hostapd was written by Jouni Malinen <j [AT] w1.fi>.
This manual page was written by Faidon Liambotis <faidon [AT] cube.gr>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).