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[Andy McDowell]

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Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
| Hi,
|
| please bare with me if this is a FAQ - I couldn't find
| the answer. Pointers are very welcome.
|
| I wonder what the dot after the (3) means in the following
| output
|
| C:\>gpg --edit-key ujr
| gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.1-nr1; Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
| This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
| This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
| under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
|
| Secret key is available.
|
| pub  1024D/7E52ECFD  created: 2003-03-14 expires: never      trust: u/u
| sub  1024g/15AC426A  created: 2003-03-14 expires: never
| (1)  Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler <ujr@address1.de>
| (2)  Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler <ujr@address2.de>
| (3). Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler <ujr@address3.de>

That means its set to be the primary UID. This can be changed by
selecting the UID you want and then typing command 'primary'.

IE.
|uid <number>
|primary

You can read up about primary UID's in the GNUPG guidebook if you not
sure what is meant by this.

Cheers

Andy

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