[ale] password hell

[Sean via Ale]

I somehow managed to screw up the file that holds the passwords to the
various wireless routers this laptop connects to. Specifically the
laptop will no longer connect to the wireless routers at my home. It
starts the process and then aborts without an error message on the
upstairs repeater and doesn't even show the primary router (downstairs
in the basement) on the long list of routers used by all my neighbors.
All it will do is connect to an unsecured Comcast router.

I >think< I entered the wrong password at some point during the day and
that is what screwed up everything. Not a router password, but a
password for accessing yet another password file: it wanted a ROOT
password and I provided the USER password, or the other way round.

Does anyone know the name and location of the file that holds this
data? I really do not want to have to delete the entire file as that
would cause obvious problems when visiting family and friends. I am
hoping I can simply delete the mangled entry and then recreate it.

Sean
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[Alex Carver via Ale]

What are you using to manage these passwords? The only place on my
laptop that has a router password is the interface configuration file
and it's in plain text (unencrypted but only readable by root).

Post by Sean via Ale
I somehow managed to screw up the file that holds the passwords to the
various wireless routers this laptop connects to. Specifically the
laptop will no longer connect to the wireless routers at my home. It
starts the process and then aborts without an error message on the
upstairs repeater and doesn't even show the primary router (downstairs
in the basement) on the long list of routers used by all my neighbors.
All it will do is connect to an unsecured Comcast router.
I >think< I entered the wrong password at some point during the day and
that is what screwed up everything. Not a router password, but a
password for accessing yet another password file: it wanted a ROOT
password and I provided the USER password, or the other way round.
Does anyone know the name and location of the file that holds this
data? I really do not want to have to delete the entire file as that
would cause obvious problems when visiting family and friends. I am
hoping I can simply delete the mangled entry and then recreate it.

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[Sean via Ale]

That is another way of asking my question. :)

Simple answer: I have no clue. This is a Fedora 25 box.

But I somehow stumbled into a GUI (don't know how I did that -- its way
too early on a Sunday morning) that showed the password for the
wireless connection I wanted had been erased. Re-entered the pswd and
all seems good again.

Sean

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What are you using to manage these passwords?  The only place on my
laptop that has a router password is the interface configuration file
and it's in plain text (unencrypted but only readable by root).

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[Jim Kinney via Ale]

Update that f25 box asap.

Post by Sean via Ale
That is another way of asking my question. :)
Simple answer: I have no clue. This is a Fedora 25 box.
But I somehow stumbled into a GUI (don't know how I did that -- its way
too early on a Sunday morning) that showed the password for the
wireless connection I wanted had been erased. Re-entered the pswd and
all seems good again.
Sean
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What are you using to manage these passwords?  The only place on my
laptop that has a router password is the interface configuration file
and it's in plain text (unencrypted but only readable by root).

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