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philipballew
Asked: 2013-07-18 17:10:42 +0800 CST

Move wireless passwords to another computer [duplicate]

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I am going to reinstall Ubuntu soon and want to move my wireless passwords I have to the new installation. What do I need to backup to put on the new installation?

network-manager

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  1. Best Answer

    As @Alaa mentioned, you'd want to copy your system connections to the new computer. Just doing a quick copy of files from /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ will suffice. If it doesn't work double check that permissions are rw for root only.

    If you have any VPN connections, you'd want to do that for /etc/NetworkManager/VPN as well.

    User-specific ones are stuck in your keyring. If you want, you can copy that to a remote location and drop it onto your new system.

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