revoke a revoked userID and e-mail from the GnuPG-Server

Laurent Jumet laurent.jumet at skynet.be
Thu Nov 3 12:38:21 CET 2011


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Hello myNameScreen !

myNameScreen <andreas-j-a-froehlich at gmx.de> wrote:

> When I try to add the same user with ( adduid ) it is not possible.
>  GPG answer: (Such a user ID already exists on this key!)
> But I do not want to change my name or e-mail!
> What do you mean exactly by "Revoque"???    Revoke of the Revoke?? How?
> Sorry, I stuck a little bit.

    First ensure the old UID is revoqued.
    Try --edit/clean on that key. This should remove all UID that are not 
longer usable.
    Save to the Keyrings.

    Then, EDIT again and create a new UID.

    Does this work?

- -- 
Laurent Jumet
      KeyID: 0xCFAF704C
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