How can I change the passphrase on our secret keys?

William Senn wsenn1 at twu.edu
Mon Apr 17 20:56:49 CEST 2017


Same vein, what version of gpg-agent?

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> On Apr 17, 2017, at 1:50 PM, helices <gpg at mdsresource.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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