![]() That’s all there is to it! Now you can share the PSK with another device or person. After successfully authenticating with your account password, you should see the plain text password in the “Show password:” field. In any case, enter your account password you use to login to your Mac or the password you use for sudo/root access.Ħ. It might only be a single window that prompts you. This will look like the following 2 windows. Check the “Show password:” box, and you should get prompted for additional access. Similar to a plain text file not tracked by source control (ideally outside the repository folder entirely), you could store passwords as variables in a Python module then import it. Ensure the secrets module is never committed to source control. The next screen you see, should look like this:ĥ. WARNING: This method is prone to mistakes. Select the network you want to recover the pre-shared key from and either double-click it, or select it and hit return/enter.Ĥ. Once the “Keychain Access” program opens, select the “login” keychain, and then select “Passwords” under the category section on the bottom left of the window.ģ. I chose the 2 methods that I thought were easiest to find.Ģ. ***Note – I realize there are other ways to get to the Keychain Access program via the CLI and GUI. Open the “Keychain Access” program under one of the following methods:Ī) Select”Applications” and then “Utilities”:ī) Select “Launchpad” from the dock, followed by “Other” and then “Keychain Access”. Using the following steps, you can recover the actual password used:ġ. ![]() There is a way to see what password is used for each wireless network you connect to using a pre-shared key for authorization. Your laptop just automatically connects to it without prompting you. Sometimes, you need to share the pre-shared key to a particular network, but don’t remember what it was. If you are like me, you connect to a wide variety of wireless networks. This might not be anything new to some of you Mac veterans, but I stumbled across this the other day and felt compelled to share it.
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