How can I change the passphrase on our secret keys?

[Senn, William]

Well, this is above my paygrade then. I've had this problem on my mac
when I've had stray pieces of gpg strewn all over /usr/local because I
brew installed one too many instances of gpg. The solution in my case
was to remove all traces of gpg, gpg-agent, etc. and then reinstall a
consistent version and rebooting (maybe killall gpg-agent would work too).

Good luck.

Will



On 4/12/2017 11:14 AM, helices wrote:
> Will,
>
> Yes, I do have the passphrase.
>
> My problem here is that gpg NEVER challenges me for the passphrase!
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Senn, William <wsenn1 at twu.edu
> <mailto:wsenn1 at twu.edu>> wrote:
>
>     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>
>>     <mailto: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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