bw writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Brian wrote: > > One user calls it a "sick joke". After five years and with no attempt > > to rectify the situation, I'm beginning to have sympathy with that view.
Debian, like all ordinary software, is full of bugs. Many bugs languish unfixed for years. This is not malice, or a "sick joke". It's just that there is too much to do and too few people to do it. There are rare cases where horrible people deliberately sabotage things. They are very high profile because they are so outrageous, but they are not the norm. I see no evidence in relation to this bug that anyone is sabotaging anything. The correct approach to this bug is to figure out how to fix it, and send a patch. > Brute forcing this thing with wifi to /e/n/i might not be the best > approach? What about people who want a different config than the > installer? What about people who don;t want to be UP (auto) on bootup? > What about static configs? Wifi is by nature a mobile environment, what > about security or several devices? Let's help the devs by hashing out the > pros and cons and making a coherent proposal? We are considering the situation where the user has installed a barebones system, with no GUI network management tools. Such a user will probably *expect* to edit a configuration file when they want to change their network configuration, whether because their needs change, or because their needs are different to those of the majority of people. Consequently, there is no problem in principle with setting up /e/n/i to have the wifi configuration from the install. That is what most people who do this will want; and if it doesn't suit them, they can change it. (It is easier to change it or delete it, than it is to set it up from scratch.) AFAICT from reading #694068, the reason d-i currently strips this information out of the installed system is because it contains the wifi password in /e/n/i, a world-readable file. That would obviously be wrong. Someone should implement and test the suggestion made by Trent Buck, here, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694068#47 Specifically: | If you don't want to udebify wpa_passphrase, you can do it by hand: | | cat >"/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-$iface.conf" <<EOF | network={ | ssid="$ssid" | psk="$passphrase" | } | EOF This should be arranged in the appropriate bit of d-i, so that the installed system works the same way as the installer. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.