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| author | xemdetia <xemdetia@808inorganic.com> | 2017-07-18 13:57:25 -0400 |
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| committer | Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> | 2017-09-08 11:24:24 -0500 |
| commit | a8c5ed812d1537728807059b4182d358bb2ca7c1 (patch) | |
| tree | faa7cdb469a826eb231012ce8fa171bf29644bff /doc/man5/config.pod | |
| parent | bac6abe18d28373e0d2d0666c411020404197337 (diff) | |
Document default section and library configuration
It is talked around but not explicitly stated in one part of the
documentation that you should put library configuration lines at the
start of the configuration file.
CLA: trivial
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Ben Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/3959)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man5/config.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man5/config.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man5/config.pod b/doc/man5/config.pod index ba9a8ab174..a7cc16b2c0 100644 --- a/doc/man5/config.pod +++ b/doc/man5/config.pod @@ -64,7 +64,9 @@ file. To enable library configuration the default section needs to contain an appropriate line which points to the main configuration section. The default name is B<openssl_conf> which is used by the B<openssl> utility. Other -applications may use an alternative name such as B<myapplicaton_conf>. +applications may use an alternative name such as B<myapplication_conf>. +All library configuration lines appear in the default section at the start +of the configuration file. The configuration section should consist of a set of name value pairs which contain specific module configuration information. The B<name> represents @@ -72,6 +74,7 @@ the name of the I<configuration module> the meaning of the B<value> is module specific: it may, for example, represent a further configuration section containing configuration module specific information. E.g. + # This must be in the default section openssl_conf = openssl_init [openssl_init] |