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Don't leak wireless password into shell history #278

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Expand Up @@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ Congratulations: you are done! Welcome to PrawnOS. You should probably change th
If have a basic environment without xfce or lxqt you can connect to WiFi using `nmtui` and it's menus to connect; or issue the following nmcli commands:
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nmcli device wifi list
nmcli device wifi connect "Network_name" password "network_password"
nmcli --ask device wifi connect "Network_name" # The --ask will prompt you for the password so it doesn't remain in your shell history
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IMO the comment is superfluous (--ask is pretty self explanatory).

I'd also suggest prefacing the commit with 'README:' to make git log more readable.

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nmtui-connect will show a fancy screen with wifi network selection, maybe it should be used?

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When that finishes, you should have access to the internet.

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