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Airport Password Tiger vs Leopard

In Tiger if you go to system preferences>network>airport>configure>preferred network. Double click on the current network (wireless security is WPA in this case). If you click to "show password" it reveals a password that is NOT the one in the router.

In Leopard if you go to system preferences>network>advanced and double click on the current network with WPA security and check show password, the password that was entered to have this computer join the network is fully revealed, the SAME as in the router.

Both of the situations above have admin privileges. I always found in Tiger that as you entered the password, you could click “show password” to confirm typing the right password, but after entering it, it would default to a password that was not the one in the router. This seemed like a good security measure and it still works for me that way in Tiger. Leopard is entirely different as described above.

Is there a way to not reveal the password in Leopard without having to create another account without administrator permissions?

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Dec 11, 2007 6:31 PM

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Dec 12, 2007 3:31 AM in response to mrokloricred37

More info:

I have 2 networks in the "preferred networks" pane in Leopard. Double clicking on one of them brings up a window with the network name/wpa security/password not shown(bunch of bullets). If I click show password it will reveal the password I entered in the router.

Double clicking the other brings up a window "System preferences wants to use your confidential information stored in "XXX(name of network)" in your keychain. Always allow/Deny/Allow. Clicking on deny and then clicking on show password changes the bullets to asterisks but doesn't reveal any letters and no password.

When I click allow keychain access, it reveals the password till next login.

I guess this is a keychain issue? Must the keychain password be the same as the login password?

To repeat, I would like to be able to have the mac open to the administrator account, the one account on this mac but not be able to reveal the airport WPA password.
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Airport Password Tiger vs Leopard

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