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authorKlaas van Schelven <klaas@vanschelven.com>2021-03-31 10:44:20 +0200
committerTomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>2021-04-26 11:38:22 +0200
commitd21224f1adcd948699e536eaf570f42ef9a051f7 (patch)
tree63c55451da14c062de0f9a048912b1e5dc4bd618 /doc/man1
parentd830526c711074fdcd82c70c24c31444366a1ed8 (diff)
Documentation fix for openssl-verify certificates
`openssl verify` silently ignores any but the first certificate in the `certificates` argument. See #14675 Reviewed-by: Dmitry Belyavskiy <beldmit@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/14754)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man1')
-rw-r--r--doc/man1/openssl-verify.pod.in10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/openssl-verify.pod.in b/doc/man1/openssl-verify.pod.in
index 2b5a350553..bb57109b12 100644
--- a/doc/man1/openssl-verify.pod.in
+++ b/doc/man1/openssl-verify.pod.in
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ B<openssl> B<verify>
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-This command verifies certificate chains.
+This command verifies certificate chains. If a certificate chain has multiple
+problems, this program attempts to display all of them.
=head1 OPTIONS
@@ -99,10 +100,9 @@ with a B<->.
=item I<certificate> ...
-One or more target certificates to verify. If no certificates are given,
-this command will attempt to read a certificate from standard input.
-If a certificate chain has multiple problems, this program attempts to
-display all of them.
+One or more target certificates to verify, one per file. If no certificates are
+given, this command will attempt to read a single certificate from standard
+input.
=back