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Sunday, 2 October, 2011

Finding your wireless keys on Android

I don't think I'm the only one who can't remember the wireless password you just entered for a network. Especially when someone else also needs it, and you've just thrown away the paper where it was on :)

In the GUI you can't see the password.

So once again, open a terminal to the local system (you need root to access the file the passwords are in.

Go to the directory:

/data/misc/wifi

And then look at the contents of the wpa_supplicant.conf file.

/data/misc/wifi # cat wpa_supplicant.conf

network={
ssid="h4x0r1337"
psk="secretpassword"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
priority=8
frequency=2412
}

So there you have it, the password :)