How can I change the passphrase on our secret keys?

Senn, William wsenn1 at twu.edu
Wed Apr 12 18:06:50 CEST 2017


You have to know the original secret key in order to make changes. If
you have lost access to your original passphrase, you are completely out
of luck.

Will

On 4/12/2017 11:02 AM, helices wrote:
> Yes, I saw that. On one host, that works.
>
> On other, I get following error:
> gpg> passwd
> Key is protected.
>
> You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
> user: "Sempris <publickey at Sempris.com>"
> 4096-bit RSA key, ID 80167A71, created 2016-03-18
>
> gpg: cancelled by user
> Can't edit this key: Operation cancelled
>
>
> What am I missing?
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Alaric L. Dailey
> <alaricd at pengdows.com <mailto:alaricd at pengdows.com>> wrote:
>
>     http://blog.chapagain.com.np/gpg-how-to-change-edit-private-key-passphrase/
>     <http://blog.chapagain.com.np/gpg-how-to-change-edit-private-key-passphrase/>
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From: *"helices" <gpg at mdsresource.net <mailto:gpg at mdsresource.net>>
>     *To: *gnupg-users at gnupg.org <mailto:gnupg-users at gnupg.org>
>     *Sent: *Wednesday, April 12, 2017 10:35:43 AM
>     *Subject: *How can I change the passphrase on our secret keys?
>
>     How can I change the passphrase on our secret keys?
>
>     I've searched Google and gnupg.org <http://gnupg.org> to no avail.
>
>     What am I missing?
>
>     Versions:
>     gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.14
>     gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.22
>
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