Hide "show wifi password" (don let show wifi password)

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I've got to put a wifi password on my school laptops (all users are admin) but I don't want to the children see the password when you go edit conextions and edit de wifi like is see in the pictures. (I would like that you can't tick in the box Nº3, so only dots will be seen) enter image description here

I would like sometihing like this that show key is like watermark so you can't see it and this screnshoot was taken in a admin acount (snox leopard osx (10.6.8) based with linux).

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score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

"(all users are admin)" there is your problem.

Even if you could hide it they, being admin, could always restore the settings, see the password and hide the setting again without you even knowing. What you want (hiding something from an admin) is never going to work.

The correct solution to your problem is to make those students users and elevate privileges to what you want them to do that requires then to even need admin privileges. Like installing software, updating etc. Here is an example using policyKit: How can I set the Software Center to install software for non-root users?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 07 '13 at 14:13

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If founded with $ sudo gedit /usr/share/nm-applet/ce-page-wifi-security.ui and then you edit the line 55 and change True for False and in the network maneger it will appear like that. enter image description here

answered Jun 07 '13 at 14:13

Marc Valsells

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Hide "show wifi password" (don let show wifi password)

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