Have you ever experienced the situation where you wanted to utilise wifi configured to connect to one machine in an entirely new machine, but couldn’t remember the wifi password?In today’s post we will be looking at how we can extract wifi passwords via command prompt.
To get this done a utility will be used called Netsh. According to Microsoft, Netsh is a command-line scripting utility that allows you to display or modify the network configuration of a computer that is currently running. So lets get busy with these simple steps.
1. Start up the Netsh utility by opening a command prompt and typing the following netsh
This should take you to the netsh prompt
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2. Enumerate the available wifi configured on the machines by typing the followingwlan show profile
3. Here we will be revealing the wifi password of “xox” by typing the following:wlan show profile xox key=clear
Now under the Security settings you will see the wifi key/password in plain text as seen in the screen shot below
Quite simple?
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Deboskey
I like detailed and precise articles like this one.