Bug 485394 – >=net-misc/dhcpcd-6 - wpa_supplicant hook incorrectly configured

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Xavier Miller (RETIRED) 2013-09-19 10:37:54 UTC]

The dhcpcd hook for wpa_supplicant searches the wpa_supplicant.conf file in /etc/ in place of /etc/wpa_supplicant.

# head /lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/10-wpa_supplicant 
# Start, reconfigure and stop wpa_supplicant per wireless interface.
# This is needed because wpa_supplicant lacks hotplugging of any kind
# and the user should not be expected to have to wire it into their system
# if the base system doesn't do this itself.

: ${wpa_supplicant_conf:=/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf}

wpa_supplicant_start()


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. no wpa_supplicant cold-/hotplugging
2. create a symlink /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf to /etc or edit hook
3. wpa_supplicant is called by dhcpcd

[Comment 1 William Hubbs 2013-09-20 16:43:10 UTC]

Roy,

several Linux distros support storing wpa_supplicant.conf in
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf instead of
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. However, the dhcpcd wpa_supplicant hook only
looks for the config file in /etc.

You might want to make the hook check for this file in both places.

Thanks,

William

[Comment 2 Roy Marples 2013-09-21 15:00:38 UTC]

Fixed here:

http://roy.marples.name/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=dhcpcd.git;a=commitdiff;h=d5094b82f474a79fb19e045ee48f86ee71c9e6bc

[Comment 3 William Hubbs 2013-09-22 18:06:20 UTC]

This is available in the live version and will be included in the first
release after 6.1.