Extending Expiration dates of gnupg keys with the private key residing on a smart card

Peter Lebbing peter at digitalbrains.com
Tue May 2 11:15:09 CEST 2017


On 01/05/17 16:52, MFPA wrote:
> Isn't the primary "key 0"?

I was under the impression "key 0" deselected all subkeys and the man
page agrees with me :-). From the man page:

> key n  Toggle selection of subkey with index n or key ID n.  Use
>        * to select all and 0 to deselect all.

The important difference is that you could do

> key 1
> key 2

and select subkeys one and two. But either

> key 0
> key 1
> key 2

or

> key 1
> key 2
> key 0

will not select the primary as well as two subkeys. You can, however,
use "key 0" to return to extending the expiration of just the primary.

TIL, "*" will select all subkeys. I did not know that.

HTH,

Peter.

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