hostapd (8)
NAME
hostapd - IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS AuthenticatorSYNOPSIS
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, 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).