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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Dec 11
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OS: Chrome
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



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There is no way to see existing WiFi passwords

Reported by pe...@partnershiponai.org, Nov 23

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 11021.56.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.76 Safari/537.36
Platform: 11021.56.0 (Official Build) stable-channel eve

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Join a WiFi with one ChromeOS device
2. Try to see the password you used, to enter it into another device
3. Discover there's no way to do this without developer mode and power-washing the device (which deletes the password :()

What is the expected behavior?
There would be a simple UI option to show the password

What went wrong?
UI designers presumably misunderstood the security properties and guarantees provided by WiFi passwords (which are minimal) and thought they needed to be hidden from the very same users who had just typed them.

Any cost benefit and risk assessment of the WPA protocol you perform will quickly show that users are better off if WiFi passwords are easy to rediscover and share when desired/needed 

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 70.0.3538.76  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 11021.56.0
Flash Version:
 
Components: -UI Internals>Network>Connectivity UI>Shell>Networking
Components: -Internals>Network>Connectivity OS>Systems>Network
Cc: mnissler@chromium.org
Labels: -Type-Bug Type-Feature
Owner: steve...@chromium.org
I would say we explicitly don't want this for managed devices - wifi password should be confidential (don't want students to be able to view the teacher network wifi password).
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
This is WAI

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