New comment by dkwo on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/42248#issuecomment-1430222020 Comment: This allows passwords to be specified in a separate file from the main config using e.g. ``` $ cat wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-wlp4s0.conf ... ext_password_backend=file:/etc/wpa_supplicant/wifi-passwords.conf network={ ssid="ItsName" psk=ext:psk_of_some } ``` together with ``` doas cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wifi-passwords.conf psk_of_some=the_actual_password ``` According to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/180872 it doesn't work with WPA3 SAE passwords, but patches have been accepted upstream fixing that.