Information about the package, hostapd, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The hostapd package is designed for, IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator.
Package Name:
hostapd
Summary:
IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator
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Description:
hostapd is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers. It implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticators and RADIUS authentication server. hostapd is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the back-ground and acts as the backend component controlling authentication. hostapd supports separate frontend programs and an example text-based frontend, hostapd_cli, is included with hostapd.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.6
Release:
7.el6
Size:
402 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the hostapd package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install hostapd
This command will install hostapd on the server.
yum remove hostapd
This command will un-install hostapd on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove hostapd, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove hostapd
This command will un-install hostapd on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove hostapd when using the -y flag.
yum update hostapd
This command will update hostapd to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove hostapd, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update hostapd
This command will update hostapd to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove hostapd when using the -y flag.
yum info hostapd
This command will show you core information about the hostapd package.
yum deplist hostapd
This command will show you the dependencies for hostapd. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update hostapd
This command will check if there is an update waiting on hostapd. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.