<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
      xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
      type="topic" style="task"
      id="keyring-lock">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#passwords"/>

    <revision version="0.1" date="2011-06-17" status="stub"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.9" version="0.1" date="2013-07-23" 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>Lock and password protect your password keyrings to control access to
    the passwords stored in them.</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Lock your keyrings</title>

  <p>To safe-keep your passwords, store them in a password-protected keyring.
  When a password-protected keyring is locked, the passwords in it are kept
  hidden till someone <link xref="keyring-unlock">unlocks</link> the keyring
  with the correct password.</p>

  <note style="tip">
    <p>You can choose to protect your keyring with a password while
    <link xref="keyring-create">creating</link> it.</p>
  </note>

  <steps>
    <title>To lock your password keyring:</title>
    <item>
      <p>From the list of keyrings under <gui>Passwords</gui> on the left side
      panel, select the keyring to be locked.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Right click on the selected keyring and select <gui>Lock</gui>, or
      click on the small picture of an opened lock next to the name of the
      password keyring.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

</page>
