on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 03:43:37PM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 02:01:35PM -0800, [email protected] wrote: > > > > My understanding is that you *can* change the expiration date, though > > typically you wouldn't do so after the key had expired. The change can > > be propogated through public keyservers. > > the problem is most implemenatations thing the expiration cannot be > changed and won't integrate the change. (proprietary PGP, SafeMail > etc all assume this) im not even sure all the keyservers will accept > a expiration change. > > > Question for the gallery: Is there a good method for checking a local > > keyring against a public keyserver to find updates and/or additional > > signatures. The best I can do right now is list the key IDs I've got > > and do a 'gpg --recv-keys' to update this list. > > i don't know of a quick way no. there should be something like gpg > --refresh-keyring or something.
I ran my own little thang:
gpg --list-keys | grep '^pub' | awk '{ print $2}' |
sed -e '/^.*\//s///' > keylist
gpg --recv-keys `cat keylist``
...which did the job. I'll time a run -- 496 keys I've got now. Takes
a while at 56K. And there were a number of updates -- signatures and
the like.
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