Setting default UID.

[David Shaw]

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On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 12:48:48PM +0200, Cyril Bouthors wrote:
> I know that John  Goerzen already asked at the end of  july [1] how to
> change  the default  UID,  Janusz A.   Urbanowicz  answered that  "The
> 'default' textual  UID is  the last one  added (determined by  time of
> self-signing)". I'd like to know if  there is a way to change the time
> of self-signing or a way to remove my own signatures foreach UID's and
> then resign them in the correct order.

The next version of GnuPG can do this the proper way, via a "primary
user id" subpacket.  In the meantime, you can do it this way:

1) "gpg -u my_key --edit my_key"

2) Select the uid number you want to be primary.

3) "delsig".  gpg will prompt you for the sigs to delete.  Delete the
   self-signature ONLY.

4) "sign".  Follow the prompts.

5) "exit".  Say "yes" to the "Save changes?" question.

Note that if someone already has your key, and they add this version,
they may end up with more than one self-signature on the new primary
UID.  This probably isn't harmful, but it does make the key a little
bigger.

Note also that if you have a key with multiple signing keys (i.e. the
main signing key and also a signing subkey), you need to specify that
you want the new self-signature to come from the MAIN key.

David

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