Wireless Network Key

[Mark Haney]

Leo Cacciari wrote:

> Mine works perfectly.... Funny, I'm not even a sysadmin, even less a
> senior one... :)

Touche.  Granted, I've not touched NM in about 4 months.  Maybe it's 
better now, but based on what I read on the other lists I'm on, it seems 
to still have issues with things that have been a problem from day one.

> Seriously, man, I myself do a lot of administration the hard way using
> scripts and the like because there is no tool doing exactly what I'd
> want, but one of the main good points of ubuntu is that almost all the
> time, almost everything works out of the box, and this include n-m.
> Apparently the OP is in one of those situations where it doesn't work.
> Before going to writing scripts (which, by the way, is far from an
> obvious task) let's he try the ubuntu way.

I can go along with that.  I only offered my suggestion because he 
asked.  It's not the only way to do it.  It's just the way I've done it 
in the past and thought I'd share.  The caveat about security stands 
regardless. I just felt like I needed to explain my position on offering 
it instead of letting someone claim 'bad advice'.

> 
> As for crack the files, I'm not sure is as easy as you think (except
> maybe if one is stupid enough to use a weak master password or none at
> all... which I'm sure is not your case).

Again, this is true.  But, and this is my stance, how many people 
actually use really strong passwords/phrases?  I mean ones that won't 
get cracked just by crossing your eyes at it? I say the odds are 
extremely high that it wouldn't take long to crack /most/ users 
passphrases.  This is less about /what should be/ and more about /what is/.

I would certainly like to just assume every user has a strong password 
and a high paranoia level, but we know what assuming does.  And that's 
why I said that keeping it in NM is not much better than a script.

So, now that we've beaten this to death, can we move on?


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