LextEdit provides a way to create a LextEdit based secured connection configuration. Allowing restrictions on the connection such as "Trace Profiler Only" or "LextEdit Only" to be confiugred. These restriction will prevent the use of a connection to only the supported application. By securing the connection these configurations are locked preventing modification such as the removal of the connection restriction
After creating a connection double click on the open lock icon next to the Configuration Name window. This will will prompt you for a security phrase, and it will ask to confirm the password which will encrypt the connection information and not allow you to modify it unless you know the security phrase to unlock it.
This would allow a someone to create a special user and password for a connection to share among other users by exporting the connection settings and distributing the export without allowing the recipient to modify the connection configuration.