Revision: 840
http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=administration&revision=840
Author: ineiev
Date: 2025-07-22 12:33:30 -0400 (Tue, 22 Jul 2025)
Log Message:
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amend per sv-hackers-public@
<[email protected]>
Describe downloading the current keyring of a group
and listing keys in it with --show-keys.
Fix a typo.
Minor reformatting.
Modified Paths:
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trunk/sviki/GpgKeyrings.mdwn
Modified: trunk/sviki/GpgKeyrings.mdwn
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--- trunk/sviki/GpgKeyrings.mdwn 2025-07-21 14:29:08 UTC (rev 839)
+++ trunk/sviki/GpgKeyrings.mdwn 2025-07-22 16:33:30 UTC (rev 840)
@@ -12,6 +12,20 @@
to select the home directory to operate on, the `--homedir` option
and the `GNUPGHOME` environment variable. This page will use the former.
+## Downloading the current keyring
+
+This is how you can get the current keyring of a group
+(where *group* is the 'unix group name'),
+
+ wget --content-disposition \
+
'https://savannah.gnu.org/p/release-gpgkeys.php?group=*group*&download=1'
+
+The command saves the keyring in a file named *group*-keyring.gpg.
+
+You can list the downloaded keys with the `gpg --show-keys` command,
+
+ gpg --show-keys *group*-keyring.gpg
+
## Creating a fresh GnuPG home directory
Usually, the default home directory contains all keys used for your everyday
@@ -69,13 +83,13 @@
## Listing keys
- gpg --homedir keyring --list-keys [_key_...]
+ gpg --homedir keyring --list-keys [*key*...]
When no keys are specified, all keys in the home directory are listed.
## Deleting keys
- gpg --homedir keyring --delete-keys _key_ [_another_key_...]
+ gpg --homedir keyring --delete-keys *key* [*another_key*...]
GnuPG will ask for confirmation.
@@ -88,7 +102,7 @@
export the key, import it in the temporary directory and edit
the key there to remove the data that shouldn't come into the final keyring.
- gpg --homedir keyring --edit-key _key_
+ gpg --homedir keyring --edit-key *key*
The most useful commands in the `--edit-key` menu are `help`,
`uid`, `key`, `delsig`, `deluid`, `delkey`, `sign`, `expire`, `clean`,
@@ -101,12 +115,12 @@
## Exporting keys
- gpg --homedir keyring --armor --export [_key_...] > new-keyring.asc
+ gpg --homedir keyring --armor --export [*key*...] > new-keyring.asc
When no keys are specified, all keys from the home directory are exported.
Note the `--armor` option. It makes GnuPG export in the ASCII format;
-by default, it the format is binary. The binary format has two disadvantages.
+by default, the format is binary. The binary format has two disadvantages.
First, it's harder to copy and paste into the browser
without unintentional corruption.
