NAME

       hostapd - IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator

SYNOPSIS

       hostapd [-hdBKtv] [-P <PID file>] <configuration file(s)>

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the hostapd daemon.

       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.   The
       current version supports Linux (Host AP, mac80211-based drivers) and FreeBSD (net80211).

       hostapd  is  designed  to  be  a  "daemon"  program  that  runs in the background 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.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.  For a complete description, run hostapd from the command line.

       -h     Show usage.

       -d     Show more debug messages.

       -dd    Show even more debug messages.

       -B     Run daemon in the background.

       -P <PID file>
              Path to PID file.

       -K     Include key data in debug messages.

       -t     Include timestamps in some debug messages.

       -v     Show hostapd version.

SEE ALSO

       hostapd_cli(1).

AUTHOR

       hostapd was written by Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>.

       This  manual  page  was  written by Faidon Liambotis <faidon@cube.gr>, for the Debian project (but may be
       used by others).