Proceed at your own risk. Now you need to set up permissions for this key. Right-click the key and then select Permissions…. You now have to take ownership of the key by selecting the advanced button and then selecting the owner tab. Setup your domain administrator as the owner replace TrustedInstaller and click OK. You should be able to connect to the WIFI network, access network and sharing center but you should not be able to uncheck the "Show characters".
Users who take their laptops home to connect to their own WiFi routers, will be able to add a WIFI connection and but will not be able to see the characters that they type. As others have said, the security flaw is more in having local administrators. How is this not considered a security flaw? If not, then why do we not have a checkbox to unhide users domain accounts? Working in a school district there is certain software that requires users to be local admins. I'm open to other suggestions, or if the above solution worked for anyone and there's a step somewhere I may overlook, I'd love to hear from you all.
What specific software requires administrative rights? I would work on diagnosing that issue first. A school district especially should not have admin rights on local computers.
You actually see this a lot when proprietary software is used. Local admin rights are required. Well, technically, that may not be true. If you knew exactly what you needed to give access, you could get around it. Unfortunately, getting that information is not always in fact rarely an option. However, it has been a common practice in many companies I've worked for, both very large and small, to give local admin rights to laptop users, especially if they need to take it home and on the road.
You can't prepare for everything. Besides, you can still lock stuff down even if they're a local administrator. Could they get around some of that stuff? Possibly, but they'd need to be much more tech savvy to do so. Chestnut Consulting is an IT service provider. I only have a few Local Admins but would still like a fix for this as no employee needs the wireless key.
Thanks for the article, it has actually prevented the user to click on show character and that saves my wireless network security key. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Laplink Software, Inc. Neil Laplink. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 6. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Hello Shekhar,. If you want any function or command that can hide wireless key from wireless setting then as far as i know this is not possible, we have been trying to find the solution to hide show character but so far I couldn't find.
This feature was introduced in Windows 7 since then we have been trying to find some solution. I hope in Microsoft will definitely look in to it, as far as the wireless key issue is concerned we have figured out a solution that is almost equal to hiding the show character. Option 1: we tried to hide that through group policy that was a success but not easy and feasible for everyone: Hide wireless network security key using group policy. Option 2: You are able to see because you may have your personal laptop wherein you must the administrator hence you have all access but i have found a solution to make your current log in as user that restrict it from showing character.
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