On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 21:04 +0200, Pieter Cardoen wrote: > Dear > > I want to use the option scan_ssid=0 for the wpa_supplicant configuration. > However when I add this line to the Wifi configuration keyfile of > NetworkManager, it is ignored by the NM daemon. How could I configure the > scan_ssid option using NetworkManager?
NM doesn't offer scan_ssid as a configuration option on a per-connection basis. scan_ssid=0 doesn't offer any security benefits because by the time NM sends scan_ssid=1, NM has either (a) already found the network in the scan list and is already connecting to it, and thus any listener will soon hear your association/authentication anyway, or (b) the network is hiding its SSID, and sending scan_ssid=1 enables quicker connection to the network, and any listener will soon hear your association too. NM will *never* probe-request specific SSIDs during general scans unless you have set the wifi.hidden=true property in the connection details. NM only probe-requests (eg, scan_ssid=1) a network immediately before connecting to it, or when wifi.hidden=true. Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
