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.
OPTIONS
xsupplicant's command options are as follows:
"-c
Specify an alternate configuration file, defaults to
/etc/xsupplicant/xsupplicant.conf
"-i
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
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).
The Open1x User Guide in /usr/share/doc/xsupplicant.
AUTHOR
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.
