Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored?

From	Robert Latest <boblatest@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored?
Date	2016-12-06 09:10 +0100
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Not in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, despite suggestions in
every bit of documentation that I got my hands on. In fact, that file
doesn't even exist on my jessie system. Nevertheless, when I
configured the WiFi network using some GUI tool in the XFCE desktop,
it worked. Even after a reboot, with no desktop running, I could ssh
into the system via WiFi.

So there must be a place, somewhere, where the WiFi passowrd ist
stored, outside the realm of some specific user. Where is it?

BTW, I did find a wpa_supplicant.conf file in some deep subdir of
/etc/dbus-1/... (I'm not at that computer at the moment). But that is
in some XML format that has nothing to do with the syntax described in
the wpa_supplicant.conf man page, and my WPA key doesn't seem to be in
there.

Thanks!

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Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored? Robert Latest <boblatest@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 09:10 +0100
  Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored? Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2016-12-06 11:10 +0100
  Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored? Yvan Masson <yvan.masson@openmailbox.org> - 2016-12-06 11:20 +0100
    Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 20:00 +0100
      Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-12-06 20:20 +0100
      Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored? Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2016-12-06 20:30 +0100
      Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored? Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 20:50 +0100
  Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored? Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-12-06 11:20 +0100
    Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored? Robert Latest <boblatest@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 17:10 +0100
    Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-12-06 21:30 +0100
      Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored? Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-12-06 23:20 +0100
        Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-12-07 18:30 +0100
  Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored? Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 12:50 +0100
  Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 20:00 +0100

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