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@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#start"/>
<link type="guide" xref="bookmark"/>
- <revision pkgversion="3.9" version="0.1" date="2013-04-12" status="stub"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.9" version="0.1" date="2013-05-09" status="draft"/>
<credit type="author copyright">
- <name></name>
- <email its:translate="no"></email>
- <years></years>
+ <name>Aruna Sankaranarayanan</name>
+ <email its:translate="no">aruna.evam@gmail.com</email>
+ <years>2013</years>
</credit>
<credit type="copyright editor">
<name></name>
@@ -21,22 +21,84 @@
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
- <desc>How do I remove and updated passwords that <app>Web</app> remembers for me?</desc>
+ <desc>How do I remove and update passwords that <app>Web</app> remembers for me?</desc>
</info>
<title>Stored passwords</title>
- <p></p>
+ <p>You can configure <app>Web</app> to save all your passwords, and then
+ refer to this saved information in the event that you forget a particular
+ password. Your saved passwords are stored in
+ <guiseq><gui style="menu">Web</gui>
+ <gui style="menuitem">Personal Data</gui>
+ <gui style="tab">Passwords</gui></guiseq>.</p>
+
+<section id="edit-preferences">
+ <title>Edit your preferences</title>
+
+ <p><app>Web</app> will offer to remember your password every time you log in
+ to a particular website, if you have modified your preferences suitably.</p>
+
+ <steps>
+ <title>To modify your preferences:</title>
+ <item>
+ <p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Web</gui>
+ <gui style="menuitem">Preferences</gui>
+ <gui style="tab">Privacy</gui></guiseq>.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Check the <gui style="checkbox">Remember passwords</gui> checkbox if
+ it is unchecked.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Click <gui style="button">Close</gui>.</p>
+ </item>
+ </steps>
+
+ <p>Once you have finished changing your preferences, you will be prompted by
+ <app>Web</app> to save your password whenever you use one to log in to a
+ website. This will be in the form of a yellow panel on the top of your
+ webpage asking you whether you would like the current password to be saved.
+ Select <gui style="button">Store password</gui> to store the password and
+ it will be saved in <guiseq><gui style="menu">Web</gui>
+ <gui style="menuitem">Personal Data</gui><gui style="tab">Passwords</gui>
+ </guiseq>. To see your passwords there, check the
+ <gui style="checkbox">Show passwords</gui> checkbox at the bottom.</p>
+
+</section>
+
+<section id="remove">
+ <title>Remove saved passwords</title>
+
+ <p>You can remove a stored password at any time. To do so:</p>
<steps>
<item>
- <p></p>
+ <p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Web</gui>
+ <gui style="menuitem">Personal Data</gui>
+ <gui style="tab">Passwords</gui></guiseq>.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>You will see a table with the titles <gui>Host name</gui> and
+ <gui>User name</gui>, and a list of values for them. You can also see
+ the associated passwords by checking the
+ <gui style="checkbox">Show passwords</gui> checkbox at the bottom.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Select the desired item from the list by clicking it.</p>
</item>
<item>
- <p></p>
+ <p>Click <gui style="button">Remove</gui> to remove the item.</p>
+ <note style="tip">
+ <p>If you want to remove all your stored passwords at once, click
+ <gui style="button">Clear</gui>. Only the
+ <gui style="checkbox">Saved passwords</gui> checkbox will be checked.
+ Now click <gui style="button">Clear</gui> to clear all your
+ passwords.</p>
+ </note>
</item>
</steps>
- <p></p>
+</section>
</page>