wpa_passphrase hostapd problem

[heehaw1900]

Hello,

When I try to connect my smartphone to my pi 3 through wifi using hostapd, the password for some reason isn't recognized. It says password is 'incorrect' although I have double checked that I am indeed typing in the right passphrase. In the hostapd code it looks like this

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wpa_passphrase=raspberry

.

Your help would be appreciated

[epoch1970]

I've seen this, I suspect this is due to a timeout when turning the clear text password into the hash used for authentication.
You could try using "wpa_passphrase <ssid> <password>" to generate the hash offline and then use that string directly in hostapd (replace "wpa_passphrase=... with "wpa_psk=<hash>")

[heehaw1900]

Could you give an example

[rpdom]

Ok, assuming your SSID is "MY_PI_WIFI" and your passphrase is "Raspberry"

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pi@raspi5 ~ $ sudo wpa_passphrase MY_PI_WIFI raspberry
network={
	ssid="MI_PI_WIFI"
	#psk="raspberry"
	psk=1bc02284224c758bfd2f26c1e2ba7e7111a68137ee9790707da1d155d2b1c13d
}

Now you can set

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wpa_psk="1bc02284224c758bfd2f26c1e2ba7e7111a68137ee9790707da1d155d2b1c13d"

instead of

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wpa_passphrase=raspberry

[heehaw1900]

Thanks

[tpaullee]

Ok, assuming your SSID is "MY_PI_WIFI" and your passphrase is "Raspberry"

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pi@raspi5 ~ $ sudo wpa_passphrase MY_PI_WIFI raspberry
network={
	ssid="MI_PI_WIFI"
	#psk="raspberry"
	psk=1bc02284224c758bfd2f26c1e2ba7e7111a68137ee9790707da1d155d2b1c13d
}

Now you can set

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wpa_psk="1bc02284224c758bfd2f26c1e2ba7e7111a68137ee9790707da1d155d2b1c13d"

instead of

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wpa_passphrase=raspberry

You are amazing in pointing out possible time-out problem with p3. Every once a while, password can work and I think that's the timing issue,
I ended up not using " .... " in wpa_psk in my .conf file for it to work.
Thanks!