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| author | Dr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com> | 2020-12-07 13:25:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Dr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com> | 2020-12-10 15:19:55 +0100 |
| commit | 374f72cedd2f26d197c208ae56571fd2123fe9ce (patch) | |
| tree | 45785b5420bf56ce7fdf237f5957088267c0fc8e /doc/man1/openssl-ca.pod.in | |
| parent | 9c3a52f2a27729490f86f1ff6cc51b9e98115729 (diff) | |
openssl-ca.pod.in: Clarify the -extensions/-crlexts options vs. x509_extensions/crl_extensions
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/13614)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man1/openssl-ca.pod.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man1/openssl-ca.pod.in | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/openssl-ca.pod.in b/doc/man1/openssl-ca.pod.in index 8442c4450b..68da77d349 100644 --- a/doc/man1/openssl-ca.pod.in +++ b/doc/man1/openssl-ca.pod.in @@ -271,10 +271,10 @@ and all certificates will be certified automatically. The section of the configuration file containing certificate extensions to be added when a certificate is issued (defaults to B<x509_extensions> -unless the B<-extfile> option is used). If no extension section is -present then, a V1 certificate is created. If the extension section -is present (even if it is empty), then a V3 certificate is created. See the -L<x509v3_config(5)> manual page for details of the +unless the B<-extfile> option is used). +If no X.509 extensions are specified then a V1 certificate is created, +else a V3 certificate is created. +See the L<x509v3_config(5)> manual page for details of the extension section format. =item B<-extfile> I<file> @@ -540,11 +540,11 @@ present, it must contain a valid CRL number. =item B<x509_extensions> -The same as B<-extensions>. +A fallback to the B<-extensions> option. =item B<crl_extensions> -The same as B<-crlexts>. +A fallback to the B<-crlexts> option. =item B<preserve> |