On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 18:42 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Jeremiah Foster wrote: > > >Hey Chris, > > > >Yeah I saw that from the man page and it did not help. Specifically > >because the names are identical and when you issue --delete-key name you > >get prompted to specify the secret key which does not exist in my case. > >So delete-key fails to work for my needs. > > > >Jeremiah > > > > > If you'd read the other parts of the manpage you'd see that name is not > only limited to your name or the UIDs email adress but you can also > specify one of the key IDs. > > You'll get the key IDs of you keys with gpg --list-keys. They (should) > key ID should be different for both of your keys, if not, you'll have to > use the long key ID, but that is pretty unlikely. > If even the long key IDs would be equal - that should be even posted to > the list because it is an rarety - you'd have to use the fingerprint of > the key as name (if even those would be equal,.. this would be nearly a > sensation ;) ). > > So take the key ID of you old unwanted key (something like 0x23459837) > and make gpg --delete-key <key-id>.
Excellent, I will try that, thanks Chris. Jeremiah _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
