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Find Saved WiFi Password In Linux Mint 16 [Beginner]
When you connect to a wireless network using WEP, WPA or WPA2-PSK, the password is saved in Linux Mint (or any other OS) when you use “connect automatically”. Imagine a situation where you need to know the WiFi password and you have not noted it down somewhere for e.g., if you need to provide the password to a visitor. You can easily retrieve the password of an earlier connected wireless network.
In this beginner’s tutorial, we shall see how to find the saved WiFi passwords in Linux Mint 16 Petra.
Find saved WiFi password in Linux Mint:
The procedure to find the saved WiFi password is very simple. Click on the Menu button and type network. Choose Network Connections in there:
In Network Connections, you’ll see all the WiFi networks you have been connected to recently. Select the one for which you want to know the password and click on Edit.
In here, under the Wi-Fi Security tab, check the Show password to reveal the password.
And that’s all you had to do to get the saved password. You can do similar steps to get the stored WiFi passwords in Ubuntu. I hope the article helped you.