Create a vault
A vault stores your items. Paw can manage more than one local vault.
Desktop app
- Open Paw and select Create new vault.
- Enter a vault name and password.
- Confirm the password and select Create vault.
Paw generates an age X25519 identity for the new vault and protects it with the password you enter.
Keep this password in a safe place. Paw has no password-recovery service. If you lose it and have no usable backup, you may lose access to the vault.
The vault name, icon, and color are stored as local listing metadata and are not encrypted in the same way as the vault contents. See Storage.
To create a vault from the command line, run paw cli init with a name. Paw prompts you to enter and confirm the password:
paw cli init Personal