On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, David Shaw wrote: :Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:13:30 -0400 :From: David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org :Subject: Re: editing User ID : :On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:18:03AM -0500, rick wrote: :> In setting up a user I managed to fat finger the email address. :> The pgp documentation shows how to edit the user information using the -ke :> (key edit) flag, but I am unable to find a similar capability in gpg. I :> thought that possibly I could remove the user id, then recreate the user :> with the corrected email address but I was unsure if I could retain the :> ability to decrypt existing files. :> :> Is it possible to edit the user information in pgp? Can someone point me :> to the applicable documentation for this item? : :You can't really edit user information. The reason is that the :information is "bound" to the key with a self-signature - editing the :user ID info would cause that signature to become invalid. This is :for reasons of self integrity, as you wouldn't want an attacker to be :able to edit your user ID information. : :The way to do what you want is to add a new user ID, with the correct :information (gpg --edit-key then "adduid"), then remove the old :incorrect UID. There are two ways to remove that: : : gpg --edit-key then "deluid". : :If you haven't sent the key to anyone, then this is safe. It deletes :the bad user ID completely and that is that. : :If you have sent the key to anyone (and that includes the keyserver), :the best you can do is revoke the user ID, which tags it with a flag :to indicate it should not be used: : : gpg --edit-key then "revuid".
Thanks, I did use the --edit-key - revuid then adduid and recreated the user. Everything seems to check out OK. Thanks again rick _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
