Subject: Re: kern/32410
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Igor Sobrado <igor@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/03/2006 17:05:04
The following reply was made to PR kern/32410; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Igor Sobrado <igor@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es>
To: Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org,
gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, igor@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es,
igor@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es
Subject: Re: kern/32410
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:02:50 +0100
In message <f06230905bfe03ff21e8a@[130.83.186.53]>, Hauke Fath writes:
> Am 03.01.2006 um 10:20 Uhr +0000 schrieb Igor Sobrado:
> > In previous NetBSD
> > releases (up to NetBSD 2.0.2 at least, [...] I was able to see
> > the WEP encryption keys when using wiconfig(8) as root, and I was
> > not able to see these keys when invoked as an unprivileged user (but
> > the "Operation not supported" message was not shown in both cases).
> >
> > Now, I am unable to see the encryption keys even as root.
>
> That functionality has been moved to ifconfig(8) in netbsd-3.
Indeed, you are right. Now keys are shown when displaying information
about the network interfaces. Thanks for the advice! If I am not wrong
ifconfig(8) shows the WEP keys in netbsd-2 too. Certainly it is much
better showing that information in a single place.
Ok, in this case the "SIOCGWAVELAN: Operation not supported" message is
not related with keys now being shown in the output of wiconfig(8).
It was just a guess, I did not know that this functionality was removed
from the wiconfig(8) command and supposed that the new behaviour of
this command was related with the message.
Cheers,
Igor.