<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM Ingo Klöcker <<a href="mailto:kloecker@kde.org">kloecker@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">When asking for help you should always start by telling us the version(s) of<br>
the program(s) you are using, i.e. in this case of gnupg (`gpg --version`) and<br>
of Kleopatra (in Help->About Kleopatra).<br>
<br>
On Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2025 09:13:05 Thomas Schweikle via Gnupg-users <br>
wrote:<br>
> I'm having some problem adding an uid to a key. What I am doing:<br>
> 1. list all keys<br>
> 2. select one of the active keys<br>
> 3. gpg --edit-key <key-id><br>
> 4. adduid<br>
> answer the questions: name, mail6<br>
> 5. type in keys secret<br>
> <br>
> do 2 to 5 for the second key.<br>
> <br>
> 6. save<br>
> <br>
> Now "gpg --list-secret-keys" lists (shortened):<br>
> sec ed25519 2020-11-18 [SC] [verfällt: 2026-12-31]<br>
> 565931F52CE768F643389BABA9CA236BDBEC9779<br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail6><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail4><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail1><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail2><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail5><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail3><br>
> ssb cv25519 2020-11-18 [E] [verfällt: 2026-12-31]<br>
> 97F6060D825C74CA8A7E49CFA0F506A815F9DDAD<br>
> <br>
> sec ed25519 2020-11-18 [SC] [verfällt: 2026-12-31]<br>
> 565931F52CE768F643389BABA9CA236BDBEC9779<br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail4><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail1><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail2><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail5><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail3><br>
> <br>
[Last "sec" listing repeated two more times]<br>
<br>
> sec brainpoolP512r1 2022-07-13 [SCA] [verfällt: 2026-12-31]<br>
> ACDFB1AF82CF084B948ECB5D27AE2304B4974851<br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail6><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail1><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail4><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail5><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail2><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail3><br>
> ssb brainpoolP512r1 2022-07-13 [E] [verfällt: 2026-12-31]<br>
> 0A5D749D75F3D847CEC42CFF737D00DCF417C669<br>
> <br>
> sec brainpoolP512r1 2022-07-13 [SCA] [verfällt: 2026-12-31]<br>
> ACDFB1AF82CF084B948ECB5D27AE2304B4974851<br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail1><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail4><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail5><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail2><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail3><br>
<br>
This looks wrong. Each key should be listed only once.<br>
<br>
> The added "mail6" is only seen at two places. Is this ok?<br>
<br>
I think that's okay. The other "copies" of your two keys shouldn't even exist.<br>
<br>
> Or should it show up within every block?<br>
<br>
The other "blocks" shouldn't be there in the first place.<br>
<br>
> Kleopatra does not show the added "mail6" anywhere. Any ideas?<br>
<br>
I suppose you looked in the Certificate Details. My guess is that Kleopatra<br>
picked up the bogus copies of your keys. You could verify this by looking at<br>
the subkeys for those keys. If only one subkey is listed then Kleopatra<br>
didn't pick up the correct copy of your key.<br>
<br>
> Anything I should do but forgot to do adding a new email address?<br>
<br>
What you did looks correct, but your keyring seems to be corrupt. I would try<br>
the following:<br>
* Make a backup of ~/.gnupg and of everything in this folder.<br>
* Export the first key (including the secret key) with<br>
gpg --export-secret-keys 565931F52CE768F643389BABA9CA236BDBEC9779 <br>
>565931F52CE768F643389BABA9CA236BDBEC9779.gpg<br>
* Delete the first key (including the secret key). This is a destructive <br>
operation!<br>
I hope you have created a backup.<br>
gpg --delete-secret-and-public-keys FINGERPRINT_OF_YOUR_FIRST_KEY<br>
* List your secret keys to verify that your first key (and all of its bogus<br>
copies) has been removed from your keyring. Also list the public keys.<br>
gpg --list-secret-keys 565931F52CE768F643389BABA9CA236BDBEC9779<br>
and<br>
gpg --list-keys 565931F52CE768F643389BABA9CA236BDBEC9779<br>
should both print an error "No secret key" or "No public key".<br>
* Import the exported key<br>
gpg --import 565931F52CE768F643389BABA9CA236BDBEC9779.gpg<br>
* List your secret keys. If everything worked according to my plan you should<br>
now see only one "block" for your first key, i.e. you should see<br>
> sec ed25519 2020-11-18 [SC] [verfällt: 2026-12-31]<br>
> 565931F52CE768F643389BABA9CA236BDBEC9779<br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail6><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail4><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail1><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail2><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail5><br>
> uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail3><br>
> ssb cv25519 2020-11-18 [E] [verfällt: 2026-12-31]<br>
> 97F6060D825C74CA8A7E49CFA0F506A815F9DDAD<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This worked:</div>"gpg --list-secret-keys" after importing the exported keys shows:sec ed25519 2020-11-18 [SC] [verfällt: 2026-12-31]<br> 565931F52CE768F643389BABA9CA236BDBEC9779<br>uid [vollständig] name <mail6><br>uid [vollständig] name <mail4><br>uid [vollständig] name <mail1><br>uid [vollständig] name <mail2><br>uid [vollständig] name <mail5><br>uid [vollständig] name <mail3><br>ssb cv25519 2020-11-18 [E] [verfällt: 2026-12-31]<br> 97F6060D825C74CA8A7E49CFA0F506A815F9DDAD<br><br>sec brainpoolP512r1 2022-07-13 [SCA] [verfällt: 2026-12-31]<br> ACDFB1AF82CF084B948ECB5D27AE2304B4974851<br>uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail6><br>uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail1><br>uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail4><br>uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail5><br>uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail2><br>uid [ ultimativ ] name <mail3><br>ssb brainpoolP512r1 2022-07-13 [E] [verfällt: 2026-12-31]<br> 0A5D749D75F3D847CEC42CFF737D00DCF417C669<div><br></div><div>But now one key is only trusted "vollständig" not "ultimativ".</div><div><br></div><div>And since it was asked:</div><div>Kleopatra: 3.2.4 (Windows), 5.0.0b103 (Windows), 3.1.4 (Ubuntu 24.04.2)</div><div>gpg: 2.2 (Windows), 2.4 (Windows, Ubuntu 24.04.2), 2.5 (Windows, Ubuntu 24.04.2)</div><div>libcrypt: 1.11.0 (Windows,Ubuntu 24.04.2)</div><div><br></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Thomas</div></div></div>