Changing E-Mail Address

[Christian Nolte]

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> Am Freitag, den 25.08.2006, 21:42 +0200 schrieb Christian Nolte:
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>> > Hi!
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>> > I am in the need of changing my e-mail address for redhat.bugzilla.org
>> > and as I am an extras maintainer, I have to change it for my extras
>> > account too. I would like to know how I have to do this in a
>> > "consistent" manner. The problem here is, that the GPG-key used for
>> > accessing the extras repo does not contain a reference to the new mail
>> > address I will be using.
>> > 
>> > As I was not able to find an entry in the fedoraproject wiki about this,
>> > I am asking you: what would be the recommended way to change my e-mail
>> > address?
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>      1. Create an new GPG key for your new email and publish it on the
>         keyservers
>      2. Edit your email and GPG KeyID at
>         https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/userbox.cgi?_edit=1
>      3. download a new ~/.fedora.cert from
>         https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/gen-cert.cgi
>      4. Change your email in owners.list
>      5. Change your email in bugzilla
>      6. Edit ~/.plague-client.cfg and insert your new email
>      7. Revoke the old GPG key if everthing is working
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> Steps 5 and 6 need to be done within one hour, otherwise Bugzilla will
> start to send out warnings to you because of the mismatching addresses.

Thank you very much, Christoph! That indeed helps. Do you think that
this question qualifies for a wiki entry?

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