BSD Portssecurity/wpa_supplicant-devel 2024.06.20 DragonFly
Supplicant (client) for WPA/802.1x protocols
- System
- DragonFly
- Repository
- DPorts
- Maintainer
- [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
- License
- BSD3CLAUSE
- Categories
- net, security
- Package size
- 619.7 KiB, 1857.1 KiB installed
Description
wpa_supplicant is a client (supplicant) with support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN). It is suitable for both desktop/laptop computers and embedded systems. Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication/ association of the wlan driver.
wpa_supplicant is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the background and acts as the backend component controlling the wireless connection. wpa_supplicant supports separate frontend programs and a text-based frontend (wpa_cli) and a GUI (wpa_gui) are included with wpa_supplicant.
In the other systems
The newest version among them is 2026.09.22, as upstream numbers it.
| System | Port | Version | Vulnerabilities | Status | Maintainer | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DragonFly | security/wpa_supplicant-devel | 2024.06.20 | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| FreeBSD | security/wpa_supplicant-devel | 2026.09.22_4 newest | none known | - | [email protected] | 2026-09-23 |
| HardenedBSD | security/wpa_supplicant-devel | 2026.09.22_4 newest | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
| GhostBSD | security/wpa_supplicant-devel | 2026.08.09_4 | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
Install
Binary package:
pkg install wpa_supplicant-develFrom DPorts:
cd /usr/dports/security/wpa_supplicant-devel && make install cleanDependency graph
Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.
Dependencies
Run dependencies 3
No port depends on this one.
Configuration
No options to configure.
- Service scripts
- none
Message after installing
To use the ports version of WPA Supplicant instead of the base, add:
wpa_supplicant_program="/usr/local/sbin/wpa_supplicant"
to /etc/rc.conf