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WiFi passwords with special characters don't connect #36

Open hot-steamer opened 7 months ago

hot-steamer commented 7 months ago

Describe the bug Connecting to a WiFi network that contains a '!' or other special character in the password does not work. Dumping a support archive shows the password is being stored in the wpa_supplicant.conf file in plain ASCII text which has known issues with special characters.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Configure a wifi network with a '!' in the password
  2. Attempt to connect to the network by setting the details in the network menu
  3. Observe no error messages and the wireless remains disconnected
  4. Dump the support archive and observe the wpa_supplicant.conf file has the password verbatim including special characters that will cause issues.

Expected behavior A wireless connection is established.

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Additional context Converting the password to an unquoted hex string may be the easier solution: https://web.mit.edu/freebsd/head/contrib/wpa/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

retro-center commented 7 months ago

Thank you for the detailed report!

I can confirm that PSK's with an exclamation point DO currently work, I just checked it in a lab environment, but your suggestion about converting the value to hex is an excellent idea and we will definitely investigate that path. Thanks again!

hot-steamer commented 7 months ago

I may have zero'd in on the wrong character. I have two wireless networks, neither worked and the common character was a '!' character. I did test the wifi with a hotspot that does have a pretty plain password and that worked. Other special characters that are in those two passwords are: !#@'

Would you mind trying the apostrophe and pound in your test next?

Though if the change will happen either way, it is a bit moot. But I would like to connect it to the wifi without removing the other special characters.