Resetting expiration of subkey

[David Shaw]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 07:10:21PM +0100, tmp at nitwit.de wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> My key was initially set to expire after 1 year. That year has passed now and 
> I want to remove the expiration at all. I did so via gpg --edit-key but the 
> ElGamal subkey kept its expiration date and I cannot encrypt data using this 
> key no more.
> 
> How can I alter the expiration of the subkey?

You have to specify the key you want to remove the expiration date
from.  If you don't specify, you are removing the expiration from the
key as a whole.  Use "key 1" (or "key 2", etc) in the --edit-key menu
before using "expire".

David