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OS: Chrome
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Allow the user to view saved WiFI passwords

Project Member Reported by reillyg@chromium.org, Dec 27 2017 
Chrome OS settings should allow the user to reveal the saved password for any WiFi network the system remembers.

The use case for this is that people forget their WiFi passwords all the time and their computer may be the only device that remembers it. Resetting your WiFi password causes more problems than it solves because now every other device in the home needs to be updated as well.

Given that Chrome allows the user to view passwords saved for auto-fill there doesn't seem to be any security benefit to hiding saved WiFi passwords either.

Comment 1 by steve...@chromium.org, Jan 2 2018

Components: -UI>Shell>Networking OS>Systems>Network
We intentionally do not send WiFi passwords from Shill to Chrome to increase WiFi security, so this information is not currently available to the UI even if we decided we should implement this.

I am not a security expert, but I belive that there were thoughtful reasons for this. (e.g autofill is opt-in and saving a WiFi password is not, compramising a WiFi passowrd affects more than just the user/device, etc).

Changing the component since this would first require a Shill change, but I suspect that this will likely be resolved WontFix.

Comment 2 by marcuskoehler@chromium.org, Jan 15

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