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You can un-expire a GPG key.
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:date: 2012-01-13 03:54
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:author: tyrel
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:category: Tech
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:category: linux, gpg
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:slug: you-can-un-expire-a-gpg-key
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:status: published
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Today we had a problem at work on a system. Without getting into too much detail as to give away secrets behind the verbal NDA I am behind, I will just say that it had to do with a GPG public key of mine that was expired on a dev machine, accidentally propagating during install to a production machine.
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This key had a sub key as well, so figuring out this was tricky.
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To start, you can list your gpg keys like so
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``gpg --list-keys``
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| This will list keys such as
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| ``pub 4096R/01A53981 2011-11-09 [expires: 2016-11-07]``
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| ``uid Tyrel Anthony Souza (Five year key for email.)``
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| ``sub 4096R/C482F56D 2011-11-09 [expires: 2016-11-07]``
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| To make this not expire, (same steps to change expiration date to another time), you must first edit the key
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| ``gpg --edit-key 01A53981``
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| You will then see a gpg prompt
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``gpg>``
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| Type “expire” in and you will be prompted for how long to change it to
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| ``Changing expiration time for the primary key.``
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| ``Please specify how long the key should be valid.``
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| `` 0 = key does not expire``
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| `` <n> = key expires in n days``
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| `` <n>w = key expires in n weeks``
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| `` <n>m = key expires in n months``
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| `` <n>y = key expires in n years``
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| You are then done setting the expiration on the primary key, if you have sub key, doing this is as easy as typing
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| ``key 1``
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| and repeating the expiration step.
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To finish and wrap things up, type ``save`` and you are done.
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