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| author | Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> | 2017-02-07 11:33:21 -0500 |
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| committer | Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> | 2017-02-07 21:12:03 -0500 |
| commit | 31041c40d45c9a2a2f59c5de64feebeff35455d9 (patch) | |
| tree | 45c28404196cf1bf04abbddcc136182cfece1ad5 /doc/apps/req.pod | |
| parent | ea9b8d847f0c209e3caccb95a05fc20298c1d6eb (diff) | |
Centralize documentation about config file location
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/2569)
(cherry picked from commit e9681f8314c64c6802b11997c471bd763de38c8c)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/apps/req.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apps/req.pod | 12 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apps/req.pod b/doc/apps/req.pod index 8ba04aedba..83b5704bd9 100644 --- a/doc/apps/req.pod +++ b/doc/apps/req.pod @@ -204,9 +204,9 @@ GOST R 34.11-94 (B<-md_gost94>). =item B<-config filename> -this allows an alternative configuration file to be specified, -this overrides the compile time filename or any specified in -the B<OPENSSL_CONF> environment variable. +this allows an alternative configuration file to be specified. +Optional; for a description of the default value, +see L<openssl(1)/COMMAND SUMMARY>. =item B<-subj arg> @@ -623,12 +623,6 @@ then the B<SET OF> is missing and the encoding is technically invalid (but it is tolerated). See the description of the command line option B<-asn1-kludge> for more information. -=head1 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES - -The variable B<OPENSSL_CONF> if defined allows an alternative configuration -file location to be specified, it will be overridden by the B<-config> command -line switch if it is present. - =head1 BUGS OpenSSL's handling of T61Strings (aka TeletexStrings) is broken: it effectively |