secret key cannot be imported: "no user ID"

[Adam Monsen]

Ah! Interesting. That works... I can first copy the secret keyring over, 
then import the public keyring. But what the heck? I don't like that.

I shouldn't have to transfer a binary secret keyring from one machine to 
another, should I? What if I want to move to a diffent PGP program on 
another platform?


>From: "DuVall, Rick" <RDuVall@ahs.llumc.edu>
>To: 'Adam Monsen' <meonkeys@hotmail.com>, gnupg-users@gnupg.org
>Subject: RE: secret key cannot be imported: "no user ID"
>Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:27:03 -0700
>
>Did you try just moving the key ring files to the new box?
>
>Rick DuVall
>Loma Linda University Medical Center
>Information Systems
>(909) 558 3265 ext. 32830
>RDuVall@ahs.llumc.edu
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adam Monsen [mailto:meonkeys@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 09:27
>To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
>Subject: secret key cannot be imported: "no user ID"
>
>
>I was trying to migrate my gpg setup on box_a to box_b. I'm using gpg 1.0.6
>on both boxes. When trying to import the secret key on box_b, it complains
>of "no user ID", even if I import my public key first. Am I doing something
>wrong? Things that don't seem to help:
>-removing passphrase from secret key
>-exporting from box_a with --no-comment
>-specifying secret keyring with --secret-keyring=.gnupg/secring.gpg
>-using the hex id rather than userid to specify which key to export
>
>Here's a pseudo-transcript of my activities:
>[jimbo@box_a ~]$ gpg -a --export-secret-keys jimbo > test.asc[jimbo@box_a
>~]$ scp test.asc jimbo@box_b:
>[jimbo@box_a ~]$ ssh box_b
>[jimbo@box_b ~]$ gpg --allow-secret-key-import --import test.asc
>
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