Re: WPA2 updating without a reboot

On Do, 2017-10-19 at 16:09 +0200, Erich Titl wrote:
> Hi Folks
> 
> You nay know that I was and will always be interested in ways to
> update
> my system in something like an open heart operation. I have never
> been
> too convinced that every replacement of a subsystem requires a
> reboot.
> 
> So today in the wake of the WPA2 bug...
> I just recompiled wpasupp and hostapd in maint and built packages for
> it. I copied the packages to the storage of the very Wifi router I am
> using to access the internet here in the marina, then updated the
> packages on the running system using apkg -u.
> 
> I restarted hostapd and after a few seconds it still acceppted my
> access
> to the system.
> 
> I then set wlan0 down and up again but wpasupplicant was not started
> automatically as I had expected because I had removed the
> wpa_supplicant_control line which would automagically start
> wpasupplicant when the interface comes up. I was hopinng my patch for
> wpa_supplicant init would have made it to the distributio, but
> whatever...
> 
Erich; if we are missing a patch for wpa_supplicant pls try to re-add
ASAP.

kp 

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