[ale] GPG question about how names appear

Trey Sizemore trey at fastmail.fm
Sun Jan 18 16:29:28 EST 2009


On Sun Jan 18, 2009 04:13PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 01/17/2009 07:28 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > The only thing you can do is delete that uid and add a correct one.
> 
> This is not the way to go, actually.  As mike mentions later in his
> mail, once a uid has been uploaded to the keyservers, deleting it
> locally doesn't really do anything for you -- it still exists (along
> with its associated self-certification) in the memory of the network.
> 
> > The ability to expire or revoke just a uid and not a whole key or whole
> > subkey is an unfortunate deficiency.
> 
> It's not clear to me what this is supposed to mean.  You *are* able to
> revoke user ids.  within "gpg --edit-key", there is a subcommand
> "revuid" which allows you to revoke a uid (and there is also a "revkey"
> which is capable of revoking individual subkeys).
> 
> I suspect that what the OP wants is to revoke the uid that he doesn't
> like, and to add a new one (though maybe not in that order).
> 
> regards,
> 
> 	--dkg
> 

Yes, what I'd like to do is either edit or remove entirely:

"Gmail (Gmail account) <hjsizemore at gmail.com>"

and replace it with:

"Trey Sizemore (Gmail account) <hjsizemore at gmail.com>"


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Trey
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