Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

[Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com>]

Dearie

> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 4:20 AM
> From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?
>
>
> However, if I remember your original post correctly, there were security
> reasons mentioned (about a possibly world readable /etc/network/interfaces,
> and splitting out an .../interfaces.d/wlan0 as a fix), Note that by default
> (in Debian, at least) /etc/network/interfaces is only root-readable. So
> this wouldn't be the reason you'd want to do the split (there are other
> valid reasons, though).
>
According to Debian Wiki WiFi How To Use (https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse), the reason for doing the split is:

(sic) Restrict the permissions of /etc/network/interfaces, to prevent pre-shared key (PSK) disclosure

Best regards.

Stella