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I had to blink twice last time when I installed Sonoma on a new partition that I did not have to provide a wifi password. This appears to confirm that. While I
by wila 2y ago
I had to blink twice last time when I installed Sonoma on a new partition that I did not have to provide a wifi password.
This appears to confirm that. While I can understand that some people would appreciate this, I'm not exactly chuffed by a fresh install silently grabbing passwords from an old install.
- LeoPanthera 2y agoThat is not related. Mac computers store the last successful wifi credentials in in the EFI, and use them to give macOS Recovery internet access.
- 38 2y agoThat is fucking terrifying.
- shuckles 2y agoYour laptop storing a Wifi credential locally is terrifying?
- baby_souffle 2y agoI think it’s plain text? Unless recovery environment has a symmetrical encryption scheme and it can decrypt the cypher text stored in nvram?
- adamomada 2y agoI just checked nvram -p It has the SSID in plaintext in current-network and preferred-network, not the passphrase. I’m not sure how it’s obfuscated or encrypted but it is not plaintext
- 38 2y agoits storing it on the god damn motherboard, not a flashdrive or something
- spaceguillotine 2y agoif you have an iPhone, iPad or any other logged in device with the wifi password it will auto grab it from that device without you doing anything.
- Nextgrid 2y agoI believe this is just iCloud Keychain in action. The other commenter is correct - the last (few?) Wi-Fi passwords are stored in NVRAM so that the recovery environment can connect to the network more conveniently.
- wilg 2y agoHow would it have synced the wifi password from iCloud without the wifi password one wonders?