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| author | Dmitry Belyavskiy <beldmit@gmail.com> | 2021-08-02 17:00:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Dmitry Belyavskiy <beldmit@gmail.com> | 2021-08-03 22:04:11 +0200 |
| commit | 6b38d7dc1bccc708279ca5091ebc28cd4bdf225d (patch) | |
| tree | 0f1eb24e8948f7aaa0cbf38cdfea0e774341ac70 /doc/man1 | |
| parent | ab98861e919b8f8f7fee3f2d44ef3b4b05908a25 (diff) | |
If we have passed the private key, don't copy it implicitly
Fixes #16197
Reviewed-by: David von Oheimb <david.von.oheimb@siemens.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16199)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man1')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man1/openssl-req.pod.in | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/openssl-req.pod.in b/doc/man1/openssl-req.pod.in index 7897610818..75d0da1743 100644 --- a/doc/man1/openssl-req.pod.in +++ b/doc/man1/openssl-req.pod.in @@ -205,11 +205,12 @@ See L<openssl-format-options(1)> for details. =item B<-keyout> I<filename> This gives the filename to write any private key to that has been newly created -or read from B<-key>. -If the B<-keyout> option is not given the filename specified in the -configuration file with the B<default_keyfile> option is used, if present. -If a new key is generated and no filename is specified -the key is written to standard output. +or read from B<-key>. If neither the B<-keyout> option nor the B<-key> option +are given then the filename specified in the configuration file with the +B<default_keyfile> option is used, if present. Thus, if you want to write the +private key and the B<-key> option is provided, you should provide the +B<-keyout> option explicitly. If a new key is generated and no filename is +specified the key is written to standard output. =item B<-noenc> |