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authorAnkita Shetty <ankita.s.shetty65@gmail.com>2020-12-09 21:56:51 +0100
committerDr. David von Oheimb <dev@ddvo.net>2020-12-13 12:47:14 +0100
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openssl.pod: Fix openSSL options doc
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org> Reviewed-by: David von Oheimb <david.von.oheimb@siemens.com> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/13651)
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+=pod
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+openssl-namedisplay-options - Distinguished name display options
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+B<openssl>
+I<command>
+[ I<options> ... ]
+[ I<parameters> ... ]
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+OpenSSL provides fine-grain control over how the subject and issuer DN's are
+displayed.
+This is specified by using the B<-nameopt> option, which takes a
+comma-separated list of options from the following set.
+An option may be preceded by a minus sign, C<->, to turn it off.
+The default value is C<oneline>.
+The first four are the most commonly used.
+
+=head1 OPTIONS
+
+=head2 Name Format Option Arguments
+
+The DN output format can be fine tuned with the following flags.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<compat>
+
+Display the name using an old format from previous OpenSSL versions.
+
+=item B<RFC2253>
+
+Display the name using the format defined in RFC 2253.
+It is equivalent to B<esc_2253>, B<esc_ctrl>, B<esc_msb>, B<utf8>,
+B<dump_nostr>, B<dump_unknown>, B<dump_der>, B<sep_comma_plus>, B<dn_rev>
+and B<sname>.
+
+=item B<oneline>
+
+Display the name in one line, using a format that is more readable
+RFC 2253.
+It is equivalent to B<esc_2253>, B<esc_ctrl>, B<esc_msb>, B<utf8>,
+B<dump_nostr>, B<dump_der>, B<use_quote>, B<sep_comma_plus_space>,
+B<space_eq> and B<sname> options.
+
+=item B<multiline>
+
+Display the name using multiple lines.
+It is equivalent to B<esc_ctrl>, B<esc_msb>, B<sep_multiline>, B<space_eq>,
+B<lname> and B<align>.
+
+=item B<esc_2253>
+
+Escape the "special" characters in a field, as required by RFC 2253.
+That is, any of the characters C<,+"E<lt>E<gt>;>, C<#> at the beginning of
+a string and leading or trailing spaces.
+
+=item B<esc_2254>
+
+Escape the "special" characters in a field as required by RFC 2254 in a field.
+That is, the B<NUL> character and of C<()*>.
+
+=item B<esc_ctrl>
+
+Escape non-printable ASCII characters, codes less than 0x20 (space)
+or greater than 0x7F (DELETE). They are displayed using RFC 2253 C<\XX>
+notation where B<XX> are the two hex digits representing the character value.
+
+=item B<esc_msb>
+
+Escape any characters with the most significant bit set, that is with
+values larger than 127, as described in B<esc_ctrl>.
+
+=item B<use_quote>
+
+Escapes some characters by surrounding the entire string with quotation
+marks, C<">.
+Without this option, individual special characters are preceded with
+a backslash character, C<\>.
+
+=item B<utf8>
+
+Convert all strings to UTF-8 format first as required by RFC 2253.
+If the output device is UTF-8 compatible, then using this option (and
+not setting B<esc_msb>) may give the correct display of multibyte
+characters.
+If this option is not set, then multibyte characters larger than 0xFF
+will be output as C<\UXXXX> for 16 bits or C<\WXXXXXXXX> for 32 bits.
+In addition, any UTF8Strings will be converted to their character form first.
+
+=item B<ignore_type>
+
+This option does not attempt to interpret multibyte characters in any
+way. That is, the content octets are merely dumped as though one octet
+represents each character. This is useful for diagnostic purposes but
+will result in rather odd looking output.
+
+=item B<show_type>
+
+Display the type of the ASN1 character string before the value,
+such as C<BMPSTRING: Hello World>.
+
+=item B<dump_der>
+
+Any fields that would be output in hex format are displayed using
+the DER encoding of the field.
+If not set, just the content octets are displayed.
+Either way, the B<#XXXX...> format of RFC 2253 is used.
+
+=item B<dump_nostr>
+
+Dump non-character strings, such as ASN.1 B<OCTET STRING>.
+If this option is not set, then non character string types will be displayed
+as though each content octet represents a single character.
+
+=item B<dump_all>
+
+Dump all fields. When this used with B<dump_der>, this allows the
+DER encoding of the structure to be unambiguously determined.
+
+=item B<dump_unknown>
+
+Dump any field whose OID is not recognised by OpenSSL.
+
+=item B<sep_comma_plus>, B<sep_comma_plus_space>, B<sep_semi_plus_space>,
+B<sep_multiline>
+
+Specify the field separators. The first word is used between the
+Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs) and the second is between
+multiple Attribute Value Assertions (AVAs). Multiple AVAs are
+very rare and their use is discouraged.
+The options ending in "space" additionally place a space after the separator to make it more readable.
+The B<sep_multiline> starts each field on its own line, and uses "plus space"
+for the AVA separator.
+It also indents the fields by four characters.
+The default value is B<sep_comma_plus_space>.
+
+=item B<dn_rev>
+
+Reverse the fields of the DN as required by RFC 2253.
+This also reverses the order of multiple AVAs in a field, but this is
+permissible as there is no ordering on values.
+
+=item B<nofname>, B<sname>, B<lname>, B<oid>
+
+Specify how the field name is displayed.
+B<nofname> does not display the field at all.
+B<sname> uses the "short name" form (CN for commonName for example).
+B<lname> uses the long form.
+B<oid> represents the OID in numerical form and is useful for
+diagnostic purpose.
+
+=item B<align>
+
+Align field values for a more readable output. Only usable with
+B<sep_multiline>.
+
+=item B<space_eq>
+
+Places spaces round the equal sign, C<=>, character which follows the field
+name.
+
+=back
+
+=head1 COPYRIGHT
+
+Copyright 2000-2020 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use
+this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
+in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
+L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
+
+=cut