Finding WPA-PSK Key Cisco Access Point

JoeF1 · 3 Jun 2015 at 11:14

Hi Guys.

Is their any way of seeing the WPA-PSK key within a Cisco IOS Series AP?

Stupidly i have forgot the PW and need to add it to someones laptop. I can go in and change the password easily but we have robots which use the WIFI and really don't fancy getting a hand slap for making them trip out and turn all SKYNET onto us

Currently all i see is **********. Cisco always make it difficult.

Thanks

Terrier_Jimlad · 3 Jun 2015 at 11:31

Nirsoft use to do a tool to reveal what the asterixs were. Not sure if it's still around

KIA · 3 Jun 2015 at 12:18

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/bullets_password_view.html

JoeF1 · 3 Jun 2015 at 12:43

Thanks for your replies guys. Just tried to use this and its coming up with a long passcode with digits. The password doesnt have this many characters as i loosely know it. Do i do anything with the passcode once Bullets has ran?

Thanks.

#Chri5# · 3 Jun 2015 at 13:02

The AP web interface might not expose the correct key for the utility to return.

JoeF1 · 3 Jun 2015 at 14:15

#Chri5# said:
The AP web interface might not expose the correct key for the utility to return.

Gah. No worries, will have to arrange downtime and just change it.

Cheers guys

matthab · 4 Jun 2015 at 13:49

Just quickly looking at one of our AP's. If its a type 7 password so you can put that into here:

http://www.ibeast.com/content/tools/ciscopassword/

SSH into the AP and do a "show run" and your looking for "wpa-psk ascii 7..."

Edit: to also recover access read here: https://supportforums.cisco.com/doc...et-1100-or-1200-access-point-ap-running-cisco