On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:42:42PM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: | On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:44:30AM +0800, Peter Crystal wrote: | > This is probably a very stupid question, however, what do | > I do if my GPG key has expired? I just discovered, after | > finally getting better of exhaustion, injury and general | > self-badness, that I cant upload packages because my key | > is expired. | > | > Of course, the obvious answer would be: | > "You should have updated it 6 months ago" | > but in this situation, I would like a more practical answer ;) | > | > | > beannachdan oirbh. | > -- | > Peter 'darkewolf' Crystal | > darke@debian.org | > | > | | I faced this problem some months ago with my own key. | | IIRC, I simply edited the key and removed the expiration date ;) | | Hope this helps. | | -- | Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT "Hay tampones y tampones..." (Eva Serrano) | Andago | \_|_/ Av. Santa Engracia, 54 | \/ \/ E-28010 Madrid - tfno:+34(91)2041100 | a n d a g o |-- http://www.andago.com | /\___/\ "Innovando en Internet" | / | \ eric@andago.com | | | i'm curious about this. whenever i list my own key using gnupg, i get: pub 1024D/90414D8C 2002-01-30 Jason M. Harvey <jason@theigloo.dhs.org> sub 1024g/47B34D0B 2002-01-30 [expires: 2007-01-29] even as another user on another box. i'ved done 'gpg --edit-key' and told it to expire never. i just installed gpa to see what it was like... it tells me the key never expires. so, which should i believe gpa or gpg??! thanks, jason --------------------------------------------------------------- | registered linux user #202942 | http://counter.li.org/ | | Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Woody | 2.4.16-k6 | | jason@theigloo.dhs.org | http://theigloo.dhs.org | ---------------------------------------------------------------
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