Those files do not have appropriate permissions. Anyone with root access can read them. While we do have a certain amount of trust in our administrators we do not want to hand them the passwords of our users. We have wireless networks that use the users credentials and not some random password. This "design" now allows us to log on to any laptop in our organisation and find the users credentials.
This is a really terrible "design". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1060907 Title: NetworkManager stores wifi passwords in plain text Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/some-wireless-profile contains plain text passwords. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1060907/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
