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  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="pgp-userid#add-remove"/>

    <revision version="0.1" date="2011-10-23" status="stub"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.9" date="2013-06-27" status="review"/>

    <include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="legal.xml"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>Aruna Sankaranarayanan</name>
      <email its:translate="no">aruna.evam@gmail.com</email>
      <years>2013</years>
    </credit>

    <desc>Remove extra user IDs</desc>
  
    <mal:credit xmlns:mal="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="translator copyright">
      <mal:name>Fran Diéguez</mal:name>
      <mal:email>frandieguez@gnome.org</mal:email>
      <mal:years>2021</mal:years>
    </mal:credit>
  </info>

  <title>Detach a user ID from a key</title>

  <p>While it is essential that all keys have at least one user ID, you can
  remove any additional user IDs that you have attached to the key.</p>

  <steps>
    <title>To remove a user ID from a PGP key:</title>
    <item>
      <p>Select the <gui>GnuPG keys</gui> keyring from the left side panel.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Select the <gui>Personal PGP key</gui> from the list.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Right click on the selected key and choose
      <guiseq><gui>Properties</gui>
      <gui>Names and Signatures</gui></guiseq>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Select the user ID you want to remove and click
      <gui style="button">Delete</gui>.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

   <note style="tip">
     <p><link xref="pgp-sync">Synchronize</link> your keys after detaching the
     user ID to update the changes on the remote copy of the key.</p>
   </note>

</page>
