PGPAINLESS-...EY-PASSWORD(1)

📦 version 1.6.9, in debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

💖 PGPAINLESS-CLI-CHANGE-KEY-PASSWORD 💖

okay bestie so this page lives in the PGPainless-CLI Manual, and it's literally the glow-up page for your key's password. new password, who dis ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

pgpainless-cli-change-key-password — Update the password of a key

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pgpainless-cli change-key-password [--[no-]armor] [--stacktrace]
[--new-key-password [=PASSWORD]] [--old-key-password=PASSWORD]...

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So here's the tea 🫖 — this command takes all your secret keys from STDIN, unlocks them using the old passwords you give it, and then emits them back out to STDOUT re-locked with the new password. Glow up complete, no cap 💅

⚠️ and if any (sub-)key cannot be unlocked, this operation will exit with error code 67. not a vibe. 💀

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

  • --new-key-password[=PASSWORD] — the new password you want to lock the keys with 🔐

If you don't pass in a new password at all, the keys will be emitted unlocked. yes bestie, naked keys, that's on you 🙈

Is an INDIRECT data type (e.g. file, environment variable, file descriptor...). iykyk 🧚

  • --[no-]armor — ASCII armor the output 🛡️✨
  • --old-key-password=PASSWORD — the old passwords you're unlocking the keys with 🔓

You can pass in multiple passwords, and they're tested sequentially to unlock locked subkeys. one of them has to hit, fr fr 👑

Is an INDIRECT data type (e.g. file, environment variable, file descriptor...). 🍓

  • --stacktrace — Print stacktrace 💀 (for when things go sideways and you need the receipts)

and that's the whole page, babe — no notes, we ate 💅 this was your girl, signing off from the PGPainless-CLI Manual 🌈🦋 stay locked, stay iconic, periodt ✨

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