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authorRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>2017-07-05 10:58:48 -0400
committerRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>2017-07-16 19:20:45 -0400
commit3ee1eac27a2e3120fbdc60e12db091c082b8de21 (patch)
treec34ee07aa725e2019dbce1f7621702eb2bb5fd69 /doc/man1/s_server.pod
parente90fc053c33a2241004451cfdeecfbf3cbdeb728 (diff)
Standardize apps use of -rand, etc.
Standardized the -rand flag and added a new one: -rand file... Always reads the specified files -writerand file Always writes to the file on exit For apps that use a config file, the RANDFILE config parameter reads the file at startup (to seed the RNG) and write to it on exit if the -writerand flag isn't used. Ensured that every app that took -rand also took -writerand, and made sure all of that agreed with all the documentation. Fix error reporting in write_file and -rand Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/3862)
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diff --git a/doc/man1/s_server.pod b/doc/man1/s_server.pod
index b1195fdae3..986578937e 100644
--- a/doc/man1/s_server.pod
+++ b/doc/man1/s_server.pod
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ B<openssl> B<s_server>
[B<-tlsextdebug>]
[B<-HTTP>]
[B<-id_prefix val>]
-[B<-rand val>]
+[B<-rand file...>]
+[B<-writerand file>]
[B<-keymatexport val>]
[B<-keymatexportlen +int>]
[B<-CRL infile>]
@@ -381,14 +382,19 @@ for testing any SSL/TLS code (eg. proxies) that wish to deal with multiple
servers, when each of which might be generating a unique range of session
IDs (eg. with a certain prefix).
-=item B<-rand val>
+=item B<-rand file...>
A file or files containing random data used to seed the random number
-generator, or an EGD socket (see L<RAND_egd(3)>).
+generator.
Multiple files can be specified separated by an OS-dependent character.
The separator is B<;> for MS-Windows, B<,> for OpenVMS, and B<:> for
all others.
+=item [B<-writerand file>]
+
+Writes random data to the specified I<file> upon exit.
+This can be used with a subsequent B<-rand> flag.
+
=item B<-verify_return_error>
Verification errors normally just print a message but allow the