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| author | Dmitry Belyavskiy <beldmit@gmail.com> | 2021-08-10 15:04:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Dmitry Belyavskiy <beldmit@gmail.com> | 2021-08-12 09:59:34 +0200 |
| commit | a5f4099d275520caf90a28a88e889cb36683b412 (patch) | |
| tree | 68282df8a2210489437df1a046b37e9615d44d2e /doc/man5 | |
| parent | dbd0244a16ebf577401e92cce374467dbc3226df (diff) | |
Disclaimer about the default provider activation added to config
Fixes #16249
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16280)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man5')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man5/config.pod | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man5/config.pod b/doc/man5/config.pod index 7bd603a2cc..77a8055e81 100644 --- a/doc/man5/config.pod +++ b/doc/man5/config.pod @@ -273,6 +273,15 @@ significant. All parameters in the section as well as sub-sections are made available to the provider. +=head3 Default provider and its activation + +If no providers are activated explicitly, the default one is activated implicitly. +See L<OSSL_PROVIDER-default(7)> for more details. + +If you add a section explicitly activating any other provider(s), +you most probably need to explicitly activate the default provider, +otherwise it becomes unavailable in openssl. It may make the system remotely unavailable. + =head2 EVP Configuration The name B<alg_section> in the initialization section names the section |