How to stop users from viewing saved passwords in Chrome?

Question

There's a function in Chrome called "Manage saved passwords":

chrome://settings/passwords

This allows you to view all the passwords you have saved into Chrome (and new ones get added in there when you allow Chrome to remember a password).

I want to be able to set it up so that any saved passwords cannot be viewed by users, at least not without entering some kind of master password (such as the admin password to the PC or something).

Is there any way to do this or something similar through a workaround? Hell, I'd even be OK with disabling the feature completely (in such a way that it can't be enabled again unless a password is entered).

James B · Answer

One of the Chrome policies you can configure is a URL blacklist. This can include chrome:// URLs. I haven't tried your specific request but I've seen it done with chrome://history so I expect it to work. Of course, if you block access to the manager, they could still save passwords, they'd just be unable to view or delete them on the management page.

Answered by James B on December 25, 2021

Aganju · Answer

There are several dozen registry settings for Chrome, where you can disable many things, one of them the *Password Manager(.

If you lock these settings in by removing write access to the respective keys for non-admins, users cannot change them back.
Find or create HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesGoogleChromePasswordManagerEnabled, and set it to (DWORD) 00000000 to disable.
There is also "ImportSavedPasswords" (same path), and some others.

Tim · Answer

Check this post it tells how to configure this option - http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/view-chromes-saved-passwords-anywhere-stop/

How to stop users from viewing saved passwords in Chrome?

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