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tejjyid

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Registered: 2012-09-26

Posts: 10

Escape with Backslash Enables Double Quoted WPA-PSK

One of my wifi networks uses double-quotes in the password; it seems when I try to enter it into a password field nothing happens. I thought of coding it in network.conf, but then how do I do that? Would the password dquote be escaped with backslash? Or something else?

(And BTW, is there an option somewhere to make password entry visible? Easier for me)

Thanks again

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Escape with Backslash Enables Double Quoted WPA-PSK

# leafpad /etc/network.conf

WIFI_KEY=" "

WPA pre-shared keys are always surrounded by double quotes in the config file.

tejjyid

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Registered: 2012-09-26

Posts: 10

Re: Escape with Backslash Enables Double Quoted WPA-PSK

Yeah, I saw that - I wondered if there was an escape character? Backslash works in some contexts...I can try, I guess.

tejjyid

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Registered: 2012-09-26

Posts: 10

Re: Escape with Backslash Enables Double Quoted WPA-PSK

So, related (I think) is that when I try to enter the double quote into a prompt box, the cursor doesn't advance...

Works in Android & Windows.

I will look further, but if anyone has an idea, other than "Change the password", that would be useful

tejjyid

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Registered: 2012-09-26

Posts: 10

Re: Escape with Backslash Enables Double Quoted WPA-PSK

Yee-hah!

Backslash works to escape the rabbit's ears.

<Entry from pink Slitaz-powered MSI Wind >

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

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Re: Escape with Backslash Enables Double Quoted WPA-PSK

You have to manually edit /etc/network.conf

If your WPA PSK is "slitaz"

[c]# leafpad /etc/network.conf[/c]

[c]WIFI_KEY="\"slitaz\""[/c]

File/Save/File/Quit

[c]# /etc/init.d/network.sh restart[/c]