---
name: "xsup_monitor"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "xsupplicant"
version: "1.2.4.dfsg.1-3"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/xsup_monitor"
---

# xsup\_monitor(1)

Prompt for password used by xsupplicant.

## NAME

xsup\_monitor - Prompt for password used by xsupplicant.

## SYNOPSIS

**xsup\_monitor** *interface*

## DESCRIPTION

The **xsup\_monitor** utility can be invoked to run in the foreground and prompt for a password when authentication is required, thus alleviating  the requirement to hard-code the password in the configuration file.

## SEE ALSO

[**xsup\_set\_pwd**(1)](/xsup_set_pwd/1.md), [**config-parser**(1)](/config-parser/1.md), [**xsupplicant**(8)](/xsupplicant/8.md),  [**xsup\_ntpwdhash**(1)](/xsup_ntpwdhash/1.md), **xsup\_get\_state**(8).

The *Open1x User's Guide* in /usr/share/doc/xsupplicant.

## AUTHOR

xsupplicant was written by Arunesh Mishra \<arunesh@cs.umd.edu\>, Nick L.  Petroni Jr. \<npetroni@cs.umd.edu\>, Bryan D. Payne \<bdpayne@cs.umd.edu\>,  Chris Hessing \<Chris.Hessing@utah.edu\>, and Terry Simons  \<Terry.Simons@m.cc.utah.edu\>.

This manual page was written by Eric Evans \<eevans@sym-link.com\> for the  Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy,  distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General  Public License, Version 2, or any later version published by the Free  Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can  be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.