<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" type="topic" style="task" id="data-passwords"> <info> <link type="guide" xref="index#start"/> <link type="guide" xref="bookmark"/> <revision pkgversion="3.9" version="0.1" date="2013-05-09" status="draft"/> <credit type="author copyright"> <name>Aruna Sankaranarayanan</name> <email its:translate="no">aruna.evam@gmail.com</email> <years>2013</years> </credit> <credit type="copyright editor"> <name></name> <email its:translate="no"></email> <years></years> </credit> <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/> <desc>How do I remove and update passwords that <app>Web</app> remembers for me?</desc> </info> <title>Stored passwords</title> <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>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>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> </section> </page>