There is no way to see existing WiFi passwords
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pe...@partnershiponai.org,
Nov 23
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: 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:
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Nov 30
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Dec 11
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).
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Dec 11
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Comment 1 by omrilio@chromium.org
, Nov 30