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I found out wpa_passphrase is on the debian disk1 though located in /sbin
not /usr/bin. I also found after having run wpa_passphrase and copying
the hex string password from its output and replacing the insecure
passphrase left in /etc/network/interfaces once that file had been copied
to the hard drive that the connection ifup does still works.
So first thing for me to do is write up a step-wise procedure and then get
an account so I can add it to the debian wiki. It's possible to strip the
hex out of wpa_passphrase output using tail and cut and save that in a
temporary file for later use. It may be possible to run a pipe directly
into /etc/network/interfaces before system does first post-install boot
and have the wifi network come up securely but I need to explore that
further so what I offer to debian wiki will be as bulletproof as possible.
I ended up doing a standard install since for whatever strange reason
after desktop and mate got installed I could edit my network connection
with nmtui but couldn't activate it.
