Changing primary user ID?

[L. Sassaman]

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On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Daniel Roesen wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:27:26AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> > Also there is a "primary user id" flag specified in OpenPGP it's semantics
> > are not very clear because you may have more than one of these
> > "primary user ids".  A solution to this problem would be to reorder
> > (while displaying) the user IDs based on that flag and the creation
> > date of the user ID (as defined by the self-signature).
> 
> Yep, this is also what I was looking for several weeks ago when I
> added a new user ID to my key. I know PGP 6.5.1i for Windows is
> capable of marking an user ID as "primary". And that what I was
> looking for in GnuPG - with no success.

FYI, PGP prior to 7.0 does not set the primary user ID flag (It just
changes the physical order in which the user-ids are stored.)

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L. Sassaman

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