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echo: rberrypi
to: A. DUMAS
from: THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
date: 2020-05-25 10:18:00
subject: Re: Wi-Fi stops working o

On 25/05/2020 10:03, A. Dumas wrote:
> On 24/05/2020 17:52, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> I found I needed to split SSIDS and tell the pi exactly which one was
>> preferred.
>>
>> Cant remember which file it was specified in tho
>
> Should be /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, right? Which I
> remembered as having 600 permissions, which it really should have
> because it contains wifi passwords, hashed or even clear text, but right
> now when I checked it was 644! I really can't imagine that that was
> always the case. Rather disturbing that there was a "secret" update
> along the way, if it was that.

mine is stuck at 600

>
> (Of course, the standard setting of Raspbian is to not require a sudo
> password anyway...)

Yup. And the pi tries them *in order* at boot time.


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