signing only one particular uid on a key?

[Folkert van Heusden]

> > Because of my Robot CA (see http://www.signedtimestamp.org/robotca.php
> > for details) I would like to sign only 1 UID and not all UIDs on a key.
> > How can this be done? Yes, I checked the man-page.
> Then you missed it.
> $ man gpg
> /edit
> uid n     Toggle selection of user id with index n.  Use 0 to deselect all.
> $ gpg --edit-key <keyid>
> command> uid 1

Aha ok. I expected the --edit-key to be for your own key only. Is it
also possible to select the uid from the commandline?

> That selects the first uid on a toggle basis - uid 1 unselects it, uid 2 
> selects the second uid and leaves other selections unchanged.
> Subsequent commands operate on the selected UID's.

Thanks.


Folkert van Heusden

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