Selecting signing key

[David Shaw]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:31:15AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a key with two subkeys that are available for signing.  I wish
> occasionally to select a specific key to use for signing -- either my
> "master" key (a 1024D key) or one of the subkeys.  I cannot figure out
> how to force it to use a master key for signing files or keys.  Hints?
> Anytime I specify 8A1D9A1F as the key to use with signing (ie with
> -u), it will use one of the subkeys.

Try gpg -u 8A1D9A1F!

Note the exclamation point at the end (which you might have to quote
so your shell doesn't get to it).

David

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