man hostapd Command

Man page for apt-get hostapd Command

Man Page for hostapd in Linux

This tutorial shows the man page for man hostapd in linux.

Open terminal with 'su' access and type the command as shown below:
man hostapd

Result of the Command Execution shown below:

HOSTAPD(8)                                                                     hostapd                                                                    HOSTAPD(8)



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, Prism54 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 sep Äê
       arate 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).



hostapd                                                                    April  7, 2005                                                                 HOSTAPD(8)-

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