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Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4/malo.4')
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/malo.4 b/share/man/man4/malo.4 index c61b6d2257a..c898c0d8b5f 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/malo.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/malo.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: malo.4,v 1.27 2008/07/28 20:10:28 damien Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: malo.4,v 1.28 2008/07/29 16:44:19 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2006 Theo de Raadt. .\" @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 28 2008 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: July 29 2008 $ .Os .Dt MALO 4 .Sh NAME @@ -75,7 +75,14 @@ or to scan for access points. .Pp The .Nm -driver can be configured to use the WEP, WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK protocols. +driver can be configured to use +Wireless Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or +Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK). +WPA is the de facto encryption standard for wireless networks. +It is strongly recommended that WEP +not be used as the sole mechanism +to secure wireless communication, +due to serious weaknesses in it. The .Nm driver relies on the software 802.11 stack for both encryption and decryption @@ -150,8 +157,8 @@ Configure malo0 to join network using WPA-PSK with passphrase .Dq my_passphrase : .Bd -literal -offset indent -# _psk=$(wpa-psk my_net my_passphrase) -# ifconfig malo0 nwid my_net wpa wpapsk ${_psk} +# ifconfig malo0 nwid my_net wpa wpapsk \e + $(wpa-psk my_net my_passphrase) .Ed .Pp Return malo0 to its default settings: |