[ale] password hell

[Alex Carver]

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).

On 2018-01-07 03:25, Sean via Ale wrote:
> 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.