NAME¶
hostapd - IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator
SYNOPSIS¶
hostapd [-hdBKtv] [-P <PID file>] <configuration file(s)>
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the
hostapd daemon.
hostapd is a user space daemon for access point and authentication
servers. It implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE
802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticators and RADIUS authentication server. The
current version supports Linux (Host AP, madwifi, mac80211-based drivers) and
FreeBSD (net80211).
hostapd is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the
background and acts as the backend component controlling authentication.
hostapd supports separate frontend programs and an example text-based
frontend,
hostapd_cli, is included with
hostapd.
OPTIONS¶
A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, run
hostapd from the command line.
- -h
- Show usage.
- -d
- Show more debug messages.
- -dd
- Show even more debug messages.
- -B
- Run daemon in the background.
- -P <PID file>
- Path to PID file.
- -K
- Include key data in debug messages.
- -t
- Include timestamps in some debug messages.
- -v
- Show hostapd version.
SEE ALSO¶
hostapd_cli(1).
AUTHOR¶
hostapd was written by Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>.
This manual page was written by Faidon Liambotis <faidon@cube.gr>, for the
Debian project (but may be used by others).