Sometimes we have to find the key of a wifi network in memory in our computer, to transmit it to someone. It's hard to remember all the passwords of the networks we connect to, and we do not all have the presence of mind to note them in our password managers.. How to do then ? Under Windows Under the operating system of Microsoft, first, you will have to open a command prompt and enter the following line, replacing "name of wifi network" by the real name of the network wifi on which you are connected: netsh wlan show profile "name of wifi network" key=clear Under MacOS Open a terminal and type security find-generic-password -wa "name of wifi network" Under Linux Open a terminal and type sudo cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/"name of wifi network" | grep psk= Can be usefull with complex passwords. Hoping this will help. Nice day. Coleo
the lazy walrus pasts it into cardfile, and saves it as wifi,crd once i start using a router. if needed i open wifi,crd; and then it is copy/paste. but your recipe is very useful too.
This can be very usefull. For example if you get a Orange Livebox 5 there is no longer a front panel which can display the wifi key.