Restricting printing and editing.

When I was the proud owner of Adobe Acrobat 8, it was SO EASY to create my own security policy, which I called "do not edit" and restricted printing and editing, so whenever I created a pdf document I would just click on "security-->do not edit" and acrobat would ask me to set the password, and then saved the document. And that was it. Now I can't seem to find for the life of me a way to create the same kind of security policy.
I tried clicking on "encrypt, manage" and created my own policy but now it asked me to set a password while creating the policy.
So when I click on my policy, it doesn't ask me to set the password. And if I doesn't set a password while creating the policy,every time I click on my policy, I have to set the restrictions (no editing, no printing).
What am I doing wrong? Because either way, when I select "remove security" on a pdf I just secured, it doesn't ask me for the password! WTF!
Please help.

As you've found, you create a new policy in Acrobat X via Tools Pane > Protection > Encrypt > Manage.
If when you define the policy, you tick the box on the "General settings" step which says "Save passwords with the policy", then you'll be asked to enter one and that will be used every time. If you untick that box, the policy will ask for a new password each time it's used.
If you apply security to a file, but don't close and re-open it, you can remove the protection again without entering anything. That's intentional, in case you make a mistake.

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