Generally speaking, yes. But if the user has not yet published his key, there is no harm in just removing it.
James On 4/22/08, Ismael Valladolid Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:13 PM, David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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: > > Isn't it more logical to revoke the old ID instead of removing it? > There could be a lot of public keyrings out there with the incorrect > ID and it won't get revoked by simply deleting it from the original > key. > > Sorry if I misunderstood the point... > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > -- James P. Howard, II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jameshoward.us _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
