Order of namestrings changed when importing keys

[David Shaw]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:09:40PM +0100, Jon Krom wrote:

> Several of the keys I imported had more than one user name string 
> (typically different email addresses, but also other info).  For 
> some reason GPG displays for most of these keys another string as
> the primary key name than PGP used to do.
> 
> Is there a reason for this?

Yes.  GnuPG makes the (reasonable) assumption that the most recently
added (actually the most recently self-signed, but that usually means
most recently added) user ID is the primary one.

> Did I do something wrong?

Nope.

> Can I change this?

Yes.  In a few weeks, GnuPG 1.0.7 will come out with a command
("primary") to mark whichever user ID you like as primary.

A few months ago, I posted a different way to do the same thing.  You
can read that here:
  http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2001-October/010194.html

David

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