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authorDr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>2009-06-26 11:28:52 +0000
committerDr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>2009-06-26 11:28:52 +0000
commit710c1c34d1e81cfae1c1a86f188d911af300daad (patch)
treeea0faba98add8325438b512fa2e1fc61a38656a4 /doc
parente16818108f2fb851930789f29622c0cb2d574398 (diff)
downloadopenssl-new-710c1c34d1e81cfae1c1a86f188d911af300daad.tar.gz
Allow checking of self-signed certifictes if a flag is set.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/apps/cms.pod2
-rw-r--r--doc/apps/s_client.pod2
-rw-r--r--doc/apps/smime.pod2
-rw-r--r--doc/apps/verify.pod5
4 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apps/cms.pod b/doc/apps/cms.pod
index 520279eeab..d62961a023 100644
--- a/doc/apps/cms.pod
+++ b/doc/apps/cms.pod
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ portion of a message so they may be included manually. If signing
then many S/MIME mail clients check the signers certificate's email
address matches that specified in the From: address.
-=item B<-purpose, -ignore_critical, -issuer_checks, -crl_check, -crl_check_all, -policy_check, -extended_crl, -x509_strict, -policy>
+=item B<-purpose, -ignore_critical, -issuer_checks, -crl_check, -crl_check_all, -policy_check, -extended_crl, -x509_strict, -policy -check_ss_sig>
Set various certificate chain valiadition option. See the
L<B<verify>|verify(1)> manual page for details.
diff --git a/doc/apps/s_client.pod b/doc/apps/s_client.pod
index f61b80c720..4ebf7b5854 100644
--- a/doc/apps/s_client.pod
+++ b/doc/apps/s_client.pod
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ also used when building the client certificate chain.
A file containing trusted certificates to use during server authentication
and to use when attempting to build the client certificate chain.
-=item B<-purpose, -ignore_critical, -issuer_checks, -crl_check, -crl_check_all, -policy_check, -extended_crl, -x509_strict, -policy>
+=item B<-purpose, -ignore_critical, -issuer_checks, -crl_check, -crl_check_all, -policy_check, -extended_crl, -x509_strict, -policy -check_ss_sig>
Set various certificate chain valiadition option. See the
L<B<verify>|verify(1)> manual page for details.
diff --git a/doc/apps/smime.pod b/doc/apps/smime.pod
index 97cc0dc789..e0258b5648 100644
--- a/doc/apps/smime.pod
+++ b/doc/apps/smime.pod
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ portion of a message so they may be included manually. If signing
then many S/MIME mail clients check the signers certificate's email
address matches that specified in the From: address.
-=item B<-purpose, -ignore_critical, -issuer_checks, -crl_check, -crl_check_all, -policy_check, -extended_crl, -x509_strict, -policy>
+=item B<-purpose, -ignore_critical, -issuer_checks, -crl_check, -crl_check_all, -policy_check, -extended_crl, -x509_strict, -policy -check_ss_sig>
Set various options of certificate chain verification. See
L<B<verify>|verify(1)> manual page for details.
diff --git a/doc/apps/verify.pod b/doc/apps/verify.pod
index dad3d17c83..bd399dc772 100644
--- a/doc/apps/verify.pod
+++ b/doc/apps/verify.pod
@@ -135,6 +135,11 @@ signing keys.
Enable support for delta CRLs.
+=item B<-check_ss_sig>
+
+Verify the signature on the self-signed root CA. This is disabled by default
+because it doesn't add any security.
+
=item B<->
marks the last option. All arguments following this are assumed to be