rauchg / wifi-password

Get the password of the wifi you're on (bash)

wifi-password

People ask you for the Wi-Fi password. Answer quickly. macOS only. Windows version.

How to use

1. Install it

With bpkg:

$ bpkg install rauchg/wifi-password

With Homebrew:

$ brew install wifi-password

With Antigen:

Add antigen bundle rauchg/wifi-password to your .zshrc with your other antigen commands

With Zgen

Add zgen load rauchg/wifi-password to your .zshrc with your other zgen commands

or with curl:

curl -L https://raw.github.com/rauchg/wifi-password/master/wifi-password.sh -o ~/bin/wifi-password && chmod +x ~/bin/wifi-password

If you don't have ~/bin in your $PATH, replace it with /usr/local/bin or similar.

2. Use it:

To get the password for the WiFi you're currently logged onto:

$ wifi-password

To get it for a specific SSID:

$ wifi-password <ssid>

To put it straight in your clipboard for pasting elsewhere (OS X only):

$ wifi-password | pbcopy

License

MIT

wifi-password's Issues

add macports support

Any chance you can put this on macports?

Shows Incorrect Password

Command "wifi-password" shows incorrect password.

Could have a version for linux too right?

Password

FOR LINUX

Any alternative available for linux

Wifi

Does OS X have any kind of "remember me" feature for accessing wi-fi passwords?

First, thanks for creating this. I think it's great, especially when combined with piping to pbcopy for easy sharing.

It's unfortunate that every attempt to retrieve a password, even the same one repeatedly, requires entry of both an admin username and a password. I know this isn't your fault, but I'm wondering what potential solutions there are.

A bit of research while composing this issue shows me that my wi-fi passwords are stored in the system keychain, which when going through Keychain Access to reveal the password requires me to type

• my admin password
• and then both my username and password again

Some further research reveals that if I set the access control on an individual password differently in Keychain Access, my admin password is no longer required to get the wifi password.

Sorry if this is rant-y, would love to learn more about potential workarounds to this UX thorn.

Unsupport 802.1x wifi

➜  Projects security find-generic-password -ga "feei"
security: SecKeychainSearchCopyNext: The specified item could not be found in the keychain.
➜  Projects security find-generic-password -ga "feei-guest"
keychain: "/Library/Keychains/System.keychain"
version: 256
class: "genp"
attributes:
    0x00000007 <blob>="feei-guest"
    0x00000008 <blob>=<NULL>
    "acct"<blob>="feei-guest"
    "cdat"<timedate>=0x32303147303730373031333933315A00  "20170707013931Z\000"
    "crtr"<uint32>=<NULL>
    "cusi"<sint32>=<NULL>
    "desc"<blob>="AirPort network password"
    "gena"<blob>=<NULL>
    "icmt"<blob>=<NULL>
    "invi"<sint32>=<NULL>
    "mdat"<timedate>=0x32304137303730373031333933315A00  "20170707013931Z\000"
    "nega"<sint32>=<NULL>
    "prot"<blob>=<NULL>
    "scrp"<sint32>=<NULL>
    "svce"<blob>="AirPort"
    "type"<uint32>=<NULL>
password: "12345678"

"wifi-password ERROR: Could not retrieve current SSID. Are you connected?"

Getting the error message "ERROR: Could not retrieve current SSID. Are you connected?" if I try to use wifi-password

Manually specifying the SSID works, it just can't detect my current Wifi connection. Help?

I'm on MacOS Sonoma 14.4, M1 macbook pro

I got error "ERROR: Could not find SSID xxx"

I run the command "wifi-password xxx"
the got "ERROR: Could not find SSID xxx"

Error: Your network doesn't have a password

Even though i'm connect to a wifi which is password protected.

FR: Authentication with Touch ID

Can you elaborate a bit on the authentication scheme used for the keychain prompts?

For example, I can edit my /etc/pam.d/sudo file to use Touch ID for sudo.

Would be great to do so for this.

Homebrew compatibility

I went ahead and created a Homebrew formula however I'm pretty certain that it would be rejected if I submit it as-is.

Looking at the Acceptable Formulae I think this is only missing the stable versioning.

Lee password

password cleanup messes up password

Why do "clean up" the password? It just removes necessary characters and makes the password unusable:

try something like this:

sz.:):p9(=w_v.;H`qYSjP7*37#*{"MvD8%K9]&9[m-GgqWKoGeWC)`jyi\,JdXd

as a password and you see what I mean.

Could not find SSID

matilda-pro:~ atimberlake$ wifi-password

… getting password for "HOME-WIFI".
… keychain prompt incoming.
ERROR: Could not find SSID "HOME-WIFI"

What happened? Is there a verbose mode?

Authenticated via EAP-PEAP (MSCHAPv2)

Text formatting broken?

› wifi-password                                                              ~ 

\033[90m … getting password for "Henderson5_5G". \033[39m
\033[90m … keychain prompt incoming. \033[39m
\033[96m ✓ "##########" \033[39m

It seems like the text formatting is broken. Heres my system info:

OS: macOS Mojave 10.14.6 18G103 x86_64
Host: MacBookAir7,2
Kernel: 18.7.0
Shell: zsh 5.3

The color things...

Wish you can solve this. Thanks for making this great tool!

Password miss-displayed on MacBook Air w/ M1 processor

Getting password miss-displayed on a MacBook Air (Apple chip):

Model Name:        MacBook Air
Model Identifier:  MacBookAir10,1
Processor Name:    Apple M1

$ wifi-password --version
> 0.1.0

Working as expected on an older MacBook Pro (Intel chip).

Model Name:        MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:  MacBookPro9,2
Processor Name:    Dual-Core Intel Core i5

$ wifi-password --version
> 0.1.0