| Dmitry Shmidt | 8d520ff | 2011-05-09 14:06:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | .TH HOSTAPD 8 "April 7, 2005" hostapd hostapd |
| 2 | .SH NAME |
| 3 | hostapd \- IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator |
| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 5 | .B hostapd |
| 6 | [\-hdBKtv] [\-P <PID file>] <configuration file(s)> |
| 7 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 8 | This manual page documents briefly the |
| 9 | .B hostapd |
| 10 | daemon. |
| 11 | .PP |
| 12 | .B hostapd |
| 13 | is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers. |
| 14 | It implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticators and RADIUS authentication server. |
| Dmitry Shmidt | fb45fd5 | 2015-01-05 13:08:17 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | The current version supports Linux (Host AP, mac80211-based drivers) and FreeBSD (net80211). |
| Dmitry Shmidt | 8d520ff | 2011-05-09 14:06:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | |
| 17 | .B hostapd |
| 18 | is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the background and acts as the backend component controlling authentication. |
| 19 | .B hostapd |
| 20 | supports separate frontend programs and an example text-based frontend, |
| 21 | .BR hostapd_cli , |
| 22 | is included with |
| 23 | .BR hostapd . |
| 24 | .SH OPTIONS |
| 25 | A summary of options is included below. |
| 26 | For a complete description, run |
| 27 | .BR hostapd |
| 28 | from the command line. |
| 29 | .TP |
| 30 | .B \-h |
| 31 | Show usage. |
| 32 | .TP |
| 33 | .B \-d |
| 34 | Show more debug messages. |
| 35 | .TP |
| 36 | .B \-dd |
| 37 | Show even more debug messages. |
| 38 | .TP |
| 39 | .B \-B |
| 40 | Run daemon in the background. |
| 41 | .TP |
| 42 | .B \-P <PID file> |
| 43 | Path to PID file. |
| 44 | .TP |
| 45 | .B \-K |
| 46 | Include key data in debug messages. |
| 47 | .TP |
| 48 | .B \-t |
| 49 | Include timestamps in some debug messages. |
| 50 | .TP |
| 51 | .B \-v |
| 52 | Show hostapd version. |
| 53 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| 54 | .BR hostapd_cli (1). |
| 55 | .SH AUTHOR |
| 56 | hostapd was written by Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>. |
| 57 | .PP |
| 58 | This manual page was written by Faidon Liambotis <faidon@cube.gr>, |
| 59 | for the Debian project (but may be used by others). |