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[Louis Twomey <louis.twomey AT heanet.ie>]

Hi Tomasz,
Sorry for a late reply to this discussion.

Personally, I'd like to keep the flexibility of having a
wpa_supplicant.conf available for "technical" end-users to use. I think
such users are a minority though, so the current behaviour of the Linux
installer is not necessary/"suitable" in most cases.

What about changing the current behaviour of the Linux installer so that
it doesn't create wpa_supplicant.conf, but also change eduroam CAT to
make wpa_supplicant.conf available directly via the installer list
there? That would eliminate concerns about files left on the Linux
devices of non-technical end-users, but still makes the file (more
easily) accessible to technical end-users.

If those two changes involved a lot of work though then that would be
hard to justify, I think.

Regards,
Louis.

On 07/04/2016 07:27, Tomasz Wolniewicz wrote:
> Actually, there is one more weakness to the current approach. We are
> using the standard approach of creating a "hidden" directory
> ".cat_installer" and place all files there. This is perfectly fine for
> Network Manager automatic configuration, but if we expect the user to do
> something with these files, a casual user will have a problem of even
> locating them.
> 
> Of course leaving things as they are now (perhaps indeed as Alan
> suggests the real password could be replaced with some descriptive text)
> is easier for me, so if people think it is of use, then I am happy to
> follow their advice, so if there are people on this list who share my
> concerns about possible confusion we may be creating, please speak up :).
> Cheers
> Tomasz
> 
> 
> W dniu 2016-04-07 o 00:31, 
> A.L.M.Buxey AT lboro.ac.uk
>  pisze:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Does anyone think that the current wpa_supplicant.conf fall-back should
>>> be preserved?
>> well, you could ensure that the file contains 
>>
>> "<put your password here!>"  rather than "theirrealpassword"  - or dont 
>> have the password
>> present and have disabled=1 in the config and they can then use wpa_cli to 
>> activate the connection 
>> (where they then enter the password on demand)
>>
>> alan
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