Personalize¶
You can personalize some of the meta information of your smartcard directly via the gpg2 interface. This allows you to, e.g. set passwords or additional meta information.
# start the edit of the smartcard
gpg2 --card-edit
gpg/card> admin
Admin commands are allowed
gpg/card> passwd
# ...
# setting a URL for a public key dramatically easens the startup
# needs when connecting the smartcard to an other device
# (laptop, Android Cell Phone with OpenKeyChain) since the pub
# key is not installed on the device
gpg/card> url
URL to retrieve public key: https://keybase.io/user/key.asc
# note: some older versions of GPG only support http:// :(
# the options below are purely administrational if you have several
# smartcards or want to use them in specific workflows.
# the information are not authenticated in any way and optional
gpg/card> name
Cardholder's surname: Doe
Cardholder's given name: Jane
gpg/card> lang
Language preferences: en
gpg/card> sex
Sex ((M)ale, (F)emale or space): f
gpg/card> login
Login data (account name): jane
gpg/card> quit