Changing the password of a secret key
Sascha Kiefer
sk at intertivity.com
Thu Feb 10 17:51:50 CET 2005
hi.
tried to change a password of a secret key by calling gpg from a program.
Here the way i tried it. Created a file named "uhu". It looks like this:
passwd
uhu
test
save
where uhu is the old-password and test the newpassword.
Then i called gpg:
gpg.exe --status-fd 1 --command-fd 0 --edit-key mustermann < uhu
The output is the following:
[GNUPG:] GET_LINE keyedit.prompt
[GNUPG:] GOT_IT
Key is protected.
[GNUPG:] USERID_HINT DB6D141403B8E2E8 Max Musterman <max at mustermann.de>
[GNUPG:] NEED_PASSPHRASE DB6D141403B8E2E8 DB6D141403B8E2E8 1 0
You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Max Musterman <max at mustermann.de>"
1024-bit RSA key, ID 03B8E2E8, created 2005-02-04
[GNUPG:] GET_HIDDEN passphrase.enter
[GNUPG:] GOT_IT
[GNUPG:] GOOD_PASSPHRASE
Enter the new passphrase for this secret key.
[GNUPG:] NEED_PASSPHRASE_SYM 3 3 2
[GNUPG:] GET_HIDDEN passphrase.enter
[GNUPG:] GOT_IT
[GNUPG:] GET_LINE keyedit.prompt
[GNUPG:] GOT_IT
[GNUPG:] GET_BOOL keyedit.save.okay
[GNUPG:] GOT_IT
Too me it looks pretty good but that password remained unchanged!
Any hints on that?
Thank you!
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