On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:07:11PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Gudjon I. Gudjonsson [Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:04:04 +0200]:
> > At last I made a silly mistake with my gpg. I put some silly sentence to > > some > > field i thought was for remembering my password (has nothing to do with the > > password). But now my name is in the GPG key > > Gudjon I. Gudjonsson (sillysentence) > > Is there any way of removing the silly sentence? Since I have only used the > > key for the two mentor packages, can I revoke it and make a new one. > No, you can't remove the silly sentence (what GPG calls the 'comment'), > since it's part of the UID, and UIDs can't be removed, only revoked. Well, they can be removed, but they can only be removed locally, not globally. > Unless your key has not been uploaded to a public keyserver, you can't > get rid of the comment by any other means than making a new key. If it > hasn't been uploaded to a public keyserver, you can remove the UID. Right. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
