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author | Rich Salz <rsalz@akamai.com> | 2020-02-26 15:25:43 -0500 |
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committer | Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org> | 2020-03-04 11:41:50 +0100 |
commit | a8055c70fa0828636b99fe613a642a2066c0aa8b (patch) | |
tree | da9a326f92e561cb74c66e7458dfab96cf2e80a4 /doc/man1/CA.pl.pod | |
parent | 888e2a9bf5e2cf825398b39e5cbabdbc29c71748 (diff) |
Add some missing env var documentation
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/11189)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man1/CA.pl.pod')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/man1/CA.pl.pod | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/CA.pl.pod b/doc/man1/CA.pl.pod index db444d5683..4c53970890 100644 --- a/doc/man1/CA.pl.pod +++ b/doc/man1/CA.pl.pod @@ -174,11 +174,18 @@ Sign the request: CA.pl -signreq +=head1 ENVIRONMENT + +The environment variable B<OPENSSL_CONFIG> may be used to specify a +configuration option and value to the B<req> and B<ca> commands invoked by +this script. It's value should be the option and pathname, as in +C<-config /path/to/conf-file>. + =head1 NOTES Most of the filenames mentioned can be modified by editing the B<CA.pl> script. -If the demoCA directory already exists then the B<-newca> command will not +If the F<demoCA> directory already exists then the B<-newca> command will not overwrite it and will do nothing. This can happen if a previous call using the B<-newca> option terminated abnormally. To get the correct behaviour delete the demoCA directory if it already exists. |