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authorWerner Koch <[email protected]>2016-04-19 15:47:24 +0000
committerWerner Koch <[email protected]>2016-04-19 15:57:21 +0000
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parentgpg: Avoid debug like output at start of --edit-key. (diff)
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gpg: Improve UID selction of --quick-sign-key.
* g10/keyedit.c (keyedit_quick_sign): Improve UID selection and print error for non-found userids. -- GnuPG-bug-id: 2315
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@@ -973,9 +973,12 @@ Directly sign a key from the passphrase without any further user
interaction. The @code{fpr} must be the verified primary fingerprint
of a key in the local keyring. If no @code{names} are given, all
useful user ids are signed; with given [@code{names}] only useful user
-ids matching one of theses names are signed. The command
-@option{--quick-lsign-key} marks the signatures as non-exportable. If
-such a non-exportable signature already exists the
+ids matching one of theses names are signed. By default, or if a name
+is prefixed with a '*', a case insensitive substring match is used.
+If a name is prefixed with a '=' a case sensitive exact match is done.
+
+The command @option{--quick-lsign-key} marks the signatures as
+non-exportable. If such a non-exportable signature already exists the
@option{--quick-sign-key} turns it into a exportable signature.
This command uses reasonable defaults and thus does not provide the