1.\" $NetBSD: wpa_passphrase.8,v 1.4 2014/03/18 18:20:36 riastradh Exp $ 2.\" 3.Dd September 10, 2008 4.Dt WPA_PASSPHRASE 8 5.Os 6.Sh NAME 7.Nm wpa_passphrase 8.Nd Set WPA passphrase for a SSID 9.Sh SYNOPSIS 10.Nm 11.Ar ssid 12.Ar passphrase 13.Sh DESCRIPTION 14The 15.Nm 16utility 17pre-computes PSK entries for network configuration blocks of a 18.Xr wpa_supplicant.conf 5 19file. 20It prints a single network configuration block to standard output. 21.Pp 22The following arguments must be specified on the command line: 23.Bl -tag -width passphrase 24.It Ar ssid 25The SSID whose passphrase should be derived. 26.It Ar passphrase 27The passphrase to use. 28If not included on the command line, 29passphrase will be read from standard input. 30The passphrase must be 8 to 63 characters in length. 31.El 32.Sh SEE ALSO 33.Xr wpa_supplicant.conf 5 , 34.Xr ifconfig 8 , 35.Xr wpa_cli 8 , 36.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 37.Sh HISTORY 38The 39.Nm 40utility first appeared in 41.Nx 4.0 . 42.Sh AUTHORS 43The 44.Nm 45utility was written by 46.An Jouni Malinen Aq Mt jkmaline@cc.hut.fi . 47This manual page is derived from the 48.Pa wpa_passphrase.sgml 49file included in the 50.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 51distribution. 52