Section 8 · System administration

hostapd.8

Package: hostapd

HOSTAPD

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

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, 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.

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).