Let's now take a look at how to bypass Open Authentication:
We will first set our lab access point Wireless Lab to use Open Authentication. On my access point, this is simply done by setting Security Mode to Disable Security:
We then connect to this access point using the
iwconfig wlan0 essid Wireless Lab
command and verify that the connection has succeeded and that we are connected to the access point.Note that we did not have to supply any username/password/passphrase to get through Open Authentication.