[kwlug-disc] Prompting for passwords in wicd

[Paul Nijjar]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 07:03:08PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote:
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> I've never figured this out. I've wanted to for a while, and tour question prompted me to go digging.
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> The CSC wiki turned out to have the answer! You can pre-hash your password:
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> https://wiki.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/Wireless
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> password=hash:$(echo -n "password" | iconv -t utf16le | openssl md4)

FYI: I finally tried this out, and it works okay. 

The MD4 is unavoidable, since that is the hashing that RADIUS
understands. Sigh. MD4 is indeed broken.

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> I dunno if that md4 is necessary; isn't that reversible these days? You would hope it could be upgraded to sha256... Tell us if you try that and it works.
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