xsupplicant - 802.1x supplicant (client)

xsupplicant [-W] [-c config file] [-i device] [-d debug level]

IEEE 802.1x is a port based authentication protocol used to help secure wired and wireless networks by forcing computers to authenticate before obtaining conectivity and joining the network. xsupplicant provides a means for Linux machines to authenticate with a RADIUS server using 802.1x and various EAP protocols.

xsupplicant's command options are as follows:

-c config file

Specify an alternate configuration file, defaults to /etc/xsupplicant/xsupplicant.conf

-i interface

Specify the network interface to use when attempting 802.1x authentication. Defaults to all interfaces or to whatever is dictated by the allow_interfaces and deny_interfaces directives of xusupplicant.conf

-d debug level

Sets a debug level, causing extra debugging information to be written to standard out. Defaults to 0, and can be set to a maximum of 7. The higher the value the more output is produced.

-f

Forces xsupplicant to run in the foreground and log to standard out, (useful for debugging).

xsup_set_pwd (1), config-parser (1), xsup_monitor (1)

The Open1x User Guide in /usr/share/doc/xsupplicant.

xsupplicant was written by Arunesh Mishra <arunesh@cs.umd.edu>, Nick L. Petroni Jr. <npetroni@cs.umd.edu>, Bryan D. Payne <bdpayne@cs.umd.edu>, Chris Hessing <Chris.Hessing@utah.edu>, and Terry Simons <Terry.Simons@m.cc.utah.edu>.

This manual page was written by Eric Evans <eevans@sym-link.com> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.