lost sigul key passphrase

[John Florian]

Hi all, let me start by saying I did a stupid thing.  (It's how I learn!)

I failed to record my passphrase for a sigul signing key that I created (in a private
instance).  I had granted access to that key to another user who does know their
passphrase for it.  Is there anyway I can regain *my* access to the key?  I am the sigul
admin.  I can make the other user a sigul admin, if that helps.  Everything I try seems to
wants my passphrase and/or I can't seem to find the correct course of action, if there
even is one.  As an admin it seems like this should be easily doable.

[John Florian]

I figured this out.  In case anyone else ever gets into a similar predicament, here's
how I did it.  It seems this could be much easier if the change-passphrase option took an
optional --user argument so that an admin could affect someone else in one step.  Instead,
I had to do the following.

Assumptions:
LUSER=me    # who forgot his passphrase
HELPER=them # who can be trusted as an admin and does remember their passphrase
KEY=f24     # the key for which $LUSER forgot his passphrase


# Make the other (trusted) user an admin.
sigul modify-user --admin yes $HELPER

# Make them a key administrator of that key.
sigul modify-key-user --key-admin yes $HELPER $KEY

# Now have them reset my passphrase by revoking it and then granting it,
# which will allow them to set an initial passphrase to something that's
# known.
sigul revoke-key-access $KEY $LUSER
sigul grant-key-access $KEY $LUSER