Editing Public Key

Federico Grau donfede@casagrau.org
Tue Jan 22 05:49:01 2002


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On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 07:08:24PM -0600, Mike Watson wrote:
> I'm a newbie here and also to using GPG.
> 
> I have a public key and published it to one of the keyservers.  Now, since I'm a
> Comcast user at home, my e-mail address will change.  Is there a way to edit the
> public key to change the comments and e-mail address? Or, should I just revoke it
> and issue another?  The new Comcast e-mail systems is ready yet in my area but i
> want to be ready when they are.
> 

sounds like maybe the adduid function from editing the key might be what you
are looking for.

    gpg --edit-key $HEX_ID_OF_YOUR_KEY
    > adduid

good luck,
donfede
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