bionic (1) linssid.1.gz

NAME

       linssid - graphical wireless scanner

DESCRIPTION

       LinSSID  runs  over  X  Window  and  displays locally receivable 802.11 wireless attach points and ad hoc
       networks.

       A table is displayed with various parameters such as MAC address, channel, and  signal  strength.  Graphs
       are also displayed with signal strength by channel and signal strength over time.

       LinSSID  is  graphically  and  functionally similar to inSSIDer (for Microsoft Windows) and Wifi Analyzer
       (for Android).

       LinSSID can be used to measure the local performance or to search for an interference free channel to  be
       set  in  a  wireless  router  (access  point).   The wireless established link won't be affected by these
       operations because LinSSID needn't set the monitor mode in network interface.

       Some features:

              •  Table of locally receivable attach points  with  many  columns  of  different  information  and
                 sortable and movable columns.

              •  Adjustable speed, real-time update.

              •  Graphs of signal strength by channel and over time.

              •  AP bandwidth displayed.

              •  Works on both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz channels.

CONFIGURATION

       The  wireless  tools that LinSSID uses require root privilege to access. You can use the xhost command to
       run LinSSID as root in a X session created by a ordinary user. Example:

           $ xhost +local:
           # linssid
           $ xhost -local:

       Other way, maybe more secure, is using sudo. To configure the SUDO (/etc/sudoers file),  use  the  visudo
       command  as  root  (do  not edit the /etc/sudoers file directly! visudo will perform syntax checks before
       write the final configuration):

           # visudo

       If needed, you can set a preferred editor using the EDITOR environment variable:

           # EDITOR=mcedit visudo

       The next step is grant access as root to linssid. Considering an ordinary user called eriberto, you  will
       need add the following line at end of file:

           eriberto  ALL = /usr/bin/linssid

       To start LinSSID, via command line, use:

           $ sudo linssid

SEE ALSO

       sudo(1), visudo(1), xhost(1)

AUTHOR

       The    LinSSID    was    written    by    Warren   Severin   <wseverin@warsev.com>.   The   homepage   is
       https://sourceforge.net/projects/linssid.

       This manual page was written by Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <eriberto@debian.org>  for  the  Debian  project
       (but may be used by others).