How can I make WiFi passwords per-user rather than per-system?
By default, newly-created wireless networking profiles are made visible to all users. I’m guessing that the idea is that if you connect to a Wi-Fi network, you are setting it up for the entire machine. That way, other users on the same computer can use the same wireless network.
If you don’t like this, you can change the allowÂEveryoneÂToÂCreateÂAllÂUserÂProfiles group policy setting to false. When set to false, only users with wlan_ permission can create system-wide profiles. That permission is granted by default to Administrators, but you can customize that by calling WlanÂSetÂSecurityÂSettings with your custom access list.
Bonus chatter: Note that being in the all users profile means that anyone can see the password. My guess is that this is the main reason for setting allowÂEveryoneÂToÂCreateÂAllÂUserÂProfiles to false.
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I may just be tired and reading something wrong, but it doesn’t seem the answer matches question. The answer tells us how to set permission to allow someone to create a per-system profile, but the question is asking how to make a per-user profile.
Kind of fair enough, but I think the answer can be inferred by what’s written here.
The standard process for creating profiles creates them system-wide by default.
Changing the policy setting listed changes the default behavior of the standard process.
After you’ve changed the policy setting, then unless you’re an Administrator(or you’ve customized the permission list), following the standard process will create per-user profiles.
So, to answer the question “how do you make a per-user profile”, you just create a profile(after turning off default system-wide profiles).
The use case might be if you had different networks in your house for parents and kids. That was you can disable Internet for the kid SSID without affecting parent access, while allowing both to use the same computer.
Fair enough but that doesn’t absolve those third-party drivers whose profile management apps force per-user profiles on you without additional software installation (or just switching back to the Windows UI, depending on which the owner prefers).