Feature request: allow user to check 'Show password' by default in the WiFi password dialogue
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| network-manager (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Originally filed at https:/
Whenever I connect to a new WiFi network, the password dialogue pops up. Every time (and I do mean literally every time), I end up clicking on the 'Show password' checkbox to make sure that I got it right. I understand the reasoning behind obscuring password fields, but for the vast majority of users, a WiFi password is not a personal secret. It's known to everyone in the same physical location, and obscuring the password is primarily a protection against shoulder surfing. It's usually also long and not easily memorable. I would like to request a user option to always check the 'Show password' box by default, which would initially be set to off (in other words, keeping the current behaviour by default, but allowing opt-in).
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #1 |
You reported it again on launchpad, the right place would be https:/