userid - Revoke a User ID
userid [
--certificate] [
--revocation-key]
[
--private-key-store] [
-t|
--time] [
--notation]
[
-B|
--binary] [
-h|
--help] <
USERID>
<
REASON> <
MESSAGE>
Revokes a User ID
Creates a revocation certificate for a User ID.
If "--revocation-key" is provided, then that key is used to create the
signature. If that key is different from the certificate being revoked, this
creates a third-party revocation. This is normally only useful if the owner of
the certificate designated the key to be a designated revoker.
If "--revocation-key" is not provided, then the certificate must
include a certification-capable key.
-
--certificate=FILE
- Reads the certificate to revoke from FILE or stdin, if
omitted. It is an error for the file to contain more than one
certificate.
-
--revocation-key=KEY
- Signs the revocation certificate using KEY. If the key is
different from the certificate, this creates a third-party revocation. If
this option is not provided, and the certificate includes secret key
material, then that key is used to sign the revocation certificate.
-
--private-key-store=KEY_STORE
- Provides parameters for private key store
-
-t, --time=TIME
- Chooses keys valid at the specified time and sets the
revocation certificate's creation time
-
--notation=NAME VALUE
- Adds a notation to the certification. A user-defined
notation's name must be of the form
"[email protected]". If the notation's name starts
with a !, then the notation is marked as being critical. If a consumer of
a signature doesn't understand a critical notation, then it will ignore
the signature. The notation is marked as being human readable.
-
-B, --binary
- Emits binary data
-
-h, --help
- Print help information
- <USERID>
- The User ID to revoke. By default, this must exactly match
a self-signed User ID. Use --force to generate a revocation certificate
for a User ID, which is not self signed.
- <REASON>
- The reason for the revocation. This must be either:
retired, or unspecified:
- retired means that this User ID is no longer valid. This is
appropriate when someone leaves an organisation, and the
organisation does not have their secret key material. For
instance, if someone was part of Debian and retires, they would
use this to indicate that a Debian-specific User ID is no longer
valid.
- unspecified means that a different reason applies.
If the reason happened in the past, you should specify that using the --time
argument. This allows OpenPGP implementations to more accurately reason
about objects whose validity depends on the validity of a User ID.
- <MESSAGE>
- A short, explanatory text that is shown to a viewer of the
revocation certificate. It explains why the certificate has been revoked.
For instance, if Alice has created a new key, she would generate a
'superseded' revocation certificate for her old key, and might include the
message "I've created a new certificate, FINGERPRINT, please use that
in the future."
For the full documentation see <
https://docs.sequoia-pgp.org/sq/>.
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sq-encrypt(1) sq-inspect(1) sq-key(1) sq-keyring(1) sq-keyserver(1)
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