[[!meta title="Support multiple host names for monkeysphere-enabled servers"]]

Some monkeysphere-enabled hosts answer to multiple host names, but the
current `monkeysphere-server` only generates a single User ID
corresponding to a single hostname.

We should make it easier for machines with multiple names to create
multiple User IDs at `gen-key` time.

We should also make it easy to add new hostnames (and remove outdated
ones).

For example: `george.riseup.net` is now also known as
`monkeysphere.info`.  It'd be nice to have a convenient way to add
that hostname to the key without mucking around with gpg directly.

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So how do we imagine the behavior here?  I assume that basically it
would just add/remove user ID's to/from the host key locally.  I guess
we will continue to rely on the "publish-key" subcommand to actually
publish all changes to the keys.

-- BJ (jgr)

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I think [when we reorganize the `monkeysphere-server`
shortcuts](reorganize-monkeysphere-server-shortcuts) it'll make it
clearer what the right interface should be.

As for what should actually happen, i think that the server should
actively revoke old User IDs, rather than removing them.  It should
probably prompt the administrator to re-publish the host key as well,
to ensure that the new User IDs are published.

  --dkg

[[bugs/done]] on 2008-08-15 15:00:02-0400 in 84b775ff0b36ec4b86e6708844ad2d678eced403