How can we recover the lost password for the WiFi network in OS X

Usually most of the users who forget Access password a WiFi network personal, solve this problem by Password reset respectively (of course, to reset the password of an Wireless networks It is necessary to know the router's access password). Also, users Windows have at hand a very simple method of Password recovery to a Wireless networks (assuming the fact that they are already Connect to the network respective), from Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network Connections (Click-right on reteaua wireless to whom you want to find out their password and select Status of the menu, then click on the button Wireless Properties And check the option Show characters in tab-ul Security). If you are users OS X. But (especially if this operating system is still a novelty for you), it is very likely that you do not know that you have a Simple method through which you can Find out the forgotten password of the wireless network (without having to reset the respective password). All you have to do is follow the instructions below.

How do we find out the forgotten password of the wireless network in OS X?

  • open Spotlight (Command + Space), then tutted Keychain And give Enter To launch the utility Keychain Access
spotlight-keychain
  • on the left side click on System, then to the right identify the name WiFi network to whom you want to recover their password
  • Click-right on reteaua wireless and select Copy Password to Clipboard from the displayed menu (you will need to enter the user and password of administration To be able to copy the network password)
copy-wireless-password
  • Then give Paste IN A Text editor in order to View password Lost

Another method of View of the password of a wireless network in OS X is the following: all in Keychain Access > System data double-click pe network That respectively, in the tab Attributes Check the option Show password (And here you will have to enter the user and password of the administrator to be able to view the password of the wireless network).

wireless-attributes

Note: The methods described above can be used to recover the passwords of all the wireless networks to which you had the Mac connected at a given time (you should not necessarily be connected to the respective network to find out its access password).

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