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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 21:10:55 -0500 |
| commit | e9681f8314c64c6802b11997c471bd763de38c8c (patch) | |
| tree | 29cb37165e4455533d5c19037b158a0a1f729d91 /doc/man1/CA.pl.pod | |
| parent | 4bf73e9f86804cfe98b03accfc2dd7cb98e018d6 (diff) | |
Centralize documentation about config file location
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/2569)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man1/CA.pl.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man1/CA.pl.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/CA.pl.pod b/doc/man1/CA.pl.pod index 727cce12c7..a7f3970cb0 100644 --- a/doc/man1/CA.pl.pod +++ b/doc/man1/CA.pl.pod @@ -191,18 +191,12 @@ be wrong. In this case the command: perl -S CA.pl can be used and the B<OPENSSL_CONF> environment variable changed to point to -the correct path of the configuration file "openssl.cnf". +the correct path of the configuration file. The script is intended as a simple front end for the B<openssl> program for use by a beginner. Its behaviour isn't always what is wanted. For more control over the behaviour of the certificate commands call the B<openssl> command directly. -=head1 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES - -The variable B<OPENSSL_CONF> if defined allows an alternative configuration -file location to be specified, it should contain the full path to the -configuration file, not just its directory. - =head1 SEE ALSO L<x509(1)>, L<ca(1)>, L<req(1)>, L<pkcs12(1)>, |