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| author | Dr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com> | 2021-05-26 09:22:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Dr. David von Oheimb <dev@ddvo.net> | 2021-05-27 11:06:01 +0200 |
| commit | 8b893c35da65c7b9a126c779caf42500e1297e7d (patch) | |
| tree | cebb3360c43033445dd37f598263e63db2fa5a25 /doc/man1 | |
| parent | 54e8f7259bec08a6655a0693a315a75d9ce65e95 (diff) | |
APPS req: Extend the -keyout option to be respected also with -key
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/13715)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man1')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man1/openssl-req.pod.in | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/openssl-req.pod.in b/doc/man1/openssl-req.pod.in index 4cec47f02c..7897610818 100644 --- a/doc/man1/openssl-req.pod.in +++ b/doc/man1/openssl-req.pod.in @@ -204,10 +204,12 @@ See L<openssl-format-options(1)> for details. =item B<-keyout> I<filename> -This gives the filename to write any newly created private key to. -If this option is not given then the filename specified in the configuration -file with the B<default_keyfile> option is used if present, -else the key is written to standard output. +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. =item B<-noenc> |