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xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
type="topic" style="task"
id="passwords-stored-create">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#passwords"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.9" date="2013-07-18" status="review"/>
<revision version="3.32.0" date="2019-03-19" status="review"/>
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Aruna Sankaranarayanan</name>
<email its:translate="no">aruna.evam@gmail.com</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
<desc><app>Passwords and keys</app> can remember your passwords for
you.</desc>
</info>
<title>Store your passwords</title>
<p><app>Passwords and Keys</app> automatically stores passwords for certain
GNOME applications in the <gui>Login</gui> keyring. Additionally, you can
store any other password you want to remember.</p>
<steps>
<title>To create a new stored password:</title>
<item>
<p>Press the <gui style="button">+</gui> button in the top-left corner of the window.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Select <gui style="menuitem">Password</gui> from the list.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Select the password keyring in which you want to store your password
from the <gui>Keyring</gui> menu.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>You can add additional information about the password in the
<gui>Description</gui> field, like the date of creation, or the name of
the application it protects, etc.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Type the password in the <gui>Password</gui> field. You can tick the
<gui style="checkbox">Show password</gui> checkbox if you want to see the
password text while typing it out.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Press the <gui style="button">Add</gui> button to finish.</p>
</item>
</steps>
<note style="tip">
<p>The default keyring is displayed as the first choice in the
<gui>Keyring</gui> drop down menu. You can
<link xref="keyring-change-default">change the default
keyring</link>.</p>
</note>
</page>
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