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| author | Dr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com> | 2020-12-10 17:31:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Dr. David von Oheimb <dev@ddvo.net> | 2021-01-20 15:59:22 +0100 |
| commit | 7c5237e1d7947e68bb100a2e170518ed0d74a20a (patch) | |
| tree | a54b4c2626d979cb16a437f9807e990e75dcf8ce /doc/man1/openssl-x509.pod.in | |
| parent | 49b36afb0b4bcd7ba2dde511f20095e15130aba6 (diff) | |
apps/x509.c: Take the -signkey arg as default pubkey with -new
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/13711)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man1/openssl-x509.pod.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man1/openssl-x509.pod.in | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/openssl-x509.pod.in b/doc/man1/openssl-x509.pod.in index 0c0fc7e414..e708486508 100644 --- a/doc/man1/openssl-x509.pod.in +++ b/doc/man1/openssl-x509.pod.in @@ -488,7 +488,10 @@ extension section format. Generate a certificate from scratch, not using an input certificate or certificate request. So the B<-in> option must not be used in this case. -Instead, the B<-subj> and <-force_pubkey> options need to be given. +Instead, the B<-subj> option needs to be given. +The public key to include defaults to the key given with the B<-signkey> option, +which implies self-signature. +It may also be given explicity using the B<-force_pubkey> option. =item B<-next_serial> |