on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 03:43:37PM -0900, Ethan Benson (erbenson@alaska.net) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 02:01:35PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com 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. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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