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Wi-Fi Password Sharing
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I think it's this feature that you're talking about. Showed up an half hour ago when I tried connecting a network on my Mac. Pretty nice actually.
It's Dutch by the way. It says:
Share your Wi-Fi
"MacBook Pro van Tom" wants to connect to your wi-fi network. Do you want to [share] the wi-fi password for 'Core-training-1'?
Send Password
It's being cut off, but that'll be fixed in any future beta I'm sure.
It's Dutch by the way. It says:
Share your Wi-Fi
"MacBook Pro van Tom" wants to connect to your wi-fi network. Do you want to [share] the wi-fi password for 'Core-training-1'?
Send Password
It's being cut off, but that'll be fixed in any future beta I'm sure.
Interesting! Thanks for posting. Though I’d still like the ability to see Wi-Fi passwords with all my account passwords.
If you have a friend round with an iPhone or iPad and they want to connect to your WiFi router as soon as they attempt connection you get a prompt asking whether you want to share your WiFi password with them.
If you confirm, it'll automatically sign them in and save your WiFi as a connection they can use whenever they're visiting.
Well, simply when I had to connect my own Mac to the corporate guest network (due to some issue with the wireless router it kept asking for it multiple times). I had my iPhone unlocked 'by accident' and suddenly saw that white card sliding in. It happened at the exact moment I got asked to type the password on my Mac with my phone ten centimeters away from it.
So it does not only work when friends want to connect to your network, even your own Apple devices can do so. Pretty neat. Although I should mention that iCloud usually takes care of that; I think every of my other networks are shared between my iPhone and Mac.
Well, simply when I had to connect my own Mac to the corporate guest network (due to some issue with the wireless router it kept asking for it multiple times). I had my iPhone unlocked 'by accident' and suddenly saw that white card sliding in. It happened at the exact moment I got asked to type the password on my Mac with my phone ten centimeters away from it.
So it does not only work when friends want to connect to your network, even your own Apple devices can do so. Pretty neat. Although I should mention that iCloud usually takes care of that; I think every of my other networks are shared between my iPhone and Mac.
Pretty neat! Thanks guys. I see this coming in handy.
I'm curious as to how it sends. Will the end user see it ? Or will it send the PW so the end user doesn't see it, configures itself & connects
I was wondering about that too. I'd say, from a security perspective, the user would only receive an encrypted password that is temporarily stored (cached) until that user leaves the network. But that's just what I would want it to do. And I do have a lot interest in networking and network security, so I always try to think of these kind of potential solutions. Don't think it's the case with this feature though. At least, I don't see any sign of it.
From what I've read, it simply adds a new entry into their keychain (using bluetooth?). Assuming the person has access to see the keychain (e.g. on a macbook) then they can see the SSID and password just as they could for any of their other WiFi entries.