How to grab Wifi passwords with only 2 commands

[BillyCarpenter]

I thought this was pretty cool.

This first command can show us all the wifi profiles stored on a windows pc.

netsh wlan show profile


This second command can show us all the wifi passwords

netsh wlan show profile name="name of wifi" key=clear


Give it a try.

[slimslob]

Re: How to grab Wifi passwords with only 2 commands

I use a freeware WiFi password revealer from magic jelly bean. It allows one to export the results to a text of CSV file. As with all freeware use caution and have a good virus protection software.

[tsbservice]

Re: How to grab Wifi passwords with only 2 commands

I thought this was pretty cool.

This first command can show us all the wifi profiles stored on a windows pc.

netsh wlan show profile


This second command can show us all the wifi passwords

netsh wlan show profile name="name of wifi" key=clear


Give it a try.

Sometimes users don't have any clue what the wifi password is. It will help, Thanks Billy.

[techsxge]

Re: How to grab Wifi passwords with only 2 commands

I mean yeah its a fancy command but not realy practical as you can just click your way through to see the password.

Anyways, want to do it without user input?

(netsh wlan show profile name="$(netsh wlan show interfaces | Select-String 'SSID' | ForEach-Object { $_ -replace '^\s+SSID\s+: ','' })" key=clear) | Select-String 'Key content'

Might work, have no wlan to test it out rn. Should grab the currently connected Wlan connection and output the password though.
Powershell command, wont work in cmd.

[dalewb74]

Re: How to grab Wifi passwords with only 2 commands

yeah that works well, have used it before. only works though if the person has connected once to the network. then they forgot the password. and for whatever reason was disconnected. run both of those commands and you have the info you need. you can blow someone's mind with that trick. lol

[techsxge]

Re: How to grab Wifi passwords with only 2 commands

I made a script that will let you extract the passwords from any recently connected wifi to just simplify this.

Script:

https://github.com/vlc3n/FuckUrBatch/blob/main/ps/wifipassword.ps1

Compiled to exe:
Release wifiPassword.ps1 compiled to .exe * vlc3n/FuckUrBatch * GitHub

Its open source, so you dont have to worry about any bloatware being installed or the script doing shady things.

[Tricky]

Re: How to grab Wifi passwords with only 2 commands

I made a script that will let you extract the passwords from any recently connected wifi to just simplify this.

Script:
https://github.com/vlc3n/FuckUrBatch...fipassword.ps1

Compiled to exe:
Release wifiPassword.ps1 compiled to .exe * vlc3n/FuckUrBatch * GitHub

Can I add #!/bin/sh to the beginning of that script for Linux?

[rthonpm]

Re: How to grab Wifi passwords with only 2 commands

Can I add #!/bin/sh to the beginning of that script for Linux?

No.

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[techsxge]

Re: How to grab Wifi passwords with only 2 commands

Can I add #!/bin/sh to the beginning of that script for Linux?

not too sure if powershell is 1:1 supported by linux.

In any case bin/sh would be for shell scripts, not powershell scripts.
You would need to add:

#!/usr/bin/pwsh -Command

[techsxge]

Re: How to grab Wifi passwords with only 2 commands

On linux it would be smarter to just do it with a python script. I quickly translated this code so forgive any mistakes:

import subprocess


wifi_profiles_info = subprocess.check_output(['nmcli', '-t', '-f', 'SSID', 'connection', 'show', '--active']).decode('utf-8')
wifi_profiles = [line.strip() for line in wifi_profiles_info.split('\n')]


print("Available Wi-Fi networks:")
for index, profile in enumerate(wifi_profiles):
    print(f"{index + 1}. {profile}")


selection = input("Select a Wi-Fi network (enter the number): ")
try:
    selected_profile = wifi_profiles[int(selection) - 1]
except (ValueError, IndexError):
    selected_profile = None


if selected_profile:
    wifi_password_info = subprocess.check_output(['nmcli', '-s', '-g', '802-11-wireless-security.psk', 'connection', 'show', selected_profile]).decode('utf-8')
    wifi_password = wifi_password_info.strip()


    print(f"Wi-Fi network: {selected_profile}")
    print(f"Password: {wifi_password}")
else:
    print("No Wi-Fi network selected.")

[rthonpm]

Re: How to grab Wifi passwords with only 2 commands

not too sure if powershell is 1:1 supported by linux.

In any case bin/sh would be for shell scripts, not powershell scripts.
You would need to add:

#!/usr/bin/pwsh -Command

It's more than just changing the string. You're using native Windows commands like netsh which aren't understood by Linux. It would be like trying to get a script calling chkdsk to work in RHEL: it's not going to know what you're trying to do.

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[techsxge]

Re: How to grab Wifi passwords with only 2 commands

On linux it would be smarter to just do it with a python script. I quickly translated this code so forgive any mistakes:

import subprocess


wifi_profiles_info = subprocess.check_output(['nmcli', '-t', '-f', 'SSID', 'connection', 'show', '--active']).decode('utf-8')
wifi_profiles = [line.strip() for line in wifi_profiles_info.split('\n')]


print("Available Wi-Fi networks:")
for index, profile in enumerate(wifi_profiles):
    print(f"{index + 1}. {profile}")


selection = input("Select a Wi-Fi network (enter the number): ")
try:
    selected_profile = wifi_profiles[int(selection) - 1]
except (ValueError, IndexError):
    selected_profile = None


if selected_profile:
    wifi_password_info = subprocess.check_output(['nmcli', '-s', '-g', '802-11-wireless-security.psk', 'connection', 'show', selected_profile]).decode('utf-8')
    wifi_password = wifi_password_info.strip()


    print(f"Wi-Fi network: {selected_profile}")
    print(f"Password: {wifi_password}")
else:
    print("No Wi-Fi network selected.")

Updated this code as netsh is not available on linux, my bad

[techsxge]

Re: How to grab Wifi passwords with only 2 commands

It's more than just changing the string. You're using native Windows commands like netsh which aren't understood by Linux. It would be like trying to get a script calling chkdsk to work in RHEL: it's not going to know what you're trying to do.

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yep, i updated my script to not use netsh. Saw this myself after uploading it... Now it uses nmcli

[rthonpm]

Re: How to grab Wifi passwords with only 2 commands

So glad the Linux world made nmcli all but a standard. It's a pain having to remember what tools work on what distribution.

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[techsxge]

Re: How to grab Wifi passwords with only 2 commands

So glad the Linux world made nmcli all but a standard. It's a pain having to remember what tools work on what distribution.

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standardisation is like the biggest thing holding people back on using linux i feel like.
nmcli should be supported by most ubuntu and redhat versions. Debian i am not too sure about