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author | Dr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com> | 2020-07-11 11:21:06 +0200 |
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committer | Dr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com> | 2020-07-30 20:10:07 +0200 |
commit | 87d20a96510ecc78068865423e0fa127d17486de (patch) | |
tree | dbd8ea8fb9de51daba87b2ebb2345465bb47f208 /doc/man1/openssl-cmp.pod.in | |
parent | a3f15e237c0325718f488ebf9a242c031f4f864e (diff) |
apps/cmp.c: Improve documentation of -recipient option
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12421)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man1/openssl-cmp.pod.in')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/man1/openssl-cmp.pod.in | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/openssl-cmp.pod.in b/doc/man1/openssl-cmp.pod.in index 216db0cb1f..45355cbdb3 100644 --- a/doc/man1/openssl-cmp.pod.in +++ b/doc/man1/openssl-cmp.pod.in @@ -506,10 +506,11 @@ and as default value for the expected sender of incoming CMP messages. =item B<-recipient> I<name> Distinguished Name (DN) to use in the recipient field of CMP request messages, -i.e., the CMP server (usually a CA or RA entity). +i.e., the CMP server (usually the addressed CA). The argument must be formatted as I</type0=value0/type1=value1/type2=...>, characters may be escaped by C<\>E<nbsp>(backslash), no spaces are skipped. +The empty name (NULL-DN) can be given explicitly as a single slash: 'I</>'. The recipient field in the header of a CMP message is mandatory. If not given explicitly the recipient is determined in the following order: |