How can I change the passphrase on our secret keys?

helices gpg at mdsresource.net
Mon Apr 17 20:50:18 CEST 2017


Version info from previous post:

CentOS release 6.8 (Final)
gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.14

CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core)
gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.22


We are NOT using pinentry.


On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 1:37 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net>
wrote:

> On Wed 2017-04-12 11:02:04 -0500, 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
>
> We need more info about the host where this failed to help you :)
>
>  * What operating system? (and what version of the OS?)
>
>  * What version of gpg?
>
>  * What version of pinentry are you expecting to use?
>
>  * If you do the following command from the shell, do you see a pinentry
>    show up anywhere?
>
>       printf "option ttyname $(tty)\ngetpin\n" | pinentry
>
> Regards,
>
>         --dkg
>
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