Update manual installation steps

Resolves #245
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Bill Zimmerman 6 years ago committed by GitHub
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@ -62,17 +62,16 @@ sudo lighttpd-enable-mod fastcgi-php
sudo service lighttpd restart
```
Now comes the fun part. For security reasons, the `www-data` user which lighttpd runs under is not allowed to start or stop daemons, or run commands like ifdown and ifup, all of which we want our page to do.
So what I have done is added the `www-data` user to the sudoers file, but with restrictions on what commands the user can run.
Add the following to the end of `/etc/sudoers`:
So what I have done is added the `www-data` user to the sudoers file, but with restrictions on what commands the user can run. Add the following to the end of `/etc/sudoers`, substituting your wireless interface for `wlan0` if needed:
```sh
www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/sbin/ifdown wlan0
www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/sbin/ifup wlan0
www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/bin/cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/bin/cp /tmp/wifidata /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/sbin/wpa_cli scan_results
www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/sbin/wpa_cli scan
www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/sbin/wpa_cli reconfigure
www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/sbin/wpa_cli -i wlan0 scan_results
www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/sbin/wpa_cli -i wlan0 scan
www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/sbin/wpa_cli -i wlan0 reconfigure
www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/bin/cp /tmp/hostapddata /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/etc/init.d/hostapd start
www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/etc/init.d/hostapd stop

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