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| author | Rich Salz <rsalz@akamai.com> | 2020-02-26 15:25:43 -0500 |
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| committer | Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org> | 2020-03-04 11:41:50 +0100 |
| commit | a8055c70fa0828636b99fe613a642a2066c0aa8b (patch) | |
| tree | da9a326f92e561cb74c66e7458dfab96cf2e80a4 /doc | |
| parent | 888e2a9bf5e2cf825398b39e5cbabdbc29c71748 (diff) | |
| download | openssl-new-a8055c70fa0828636b99fe613a642a2066c0aa8b.tar.gz | |
Add some missing env var documentation
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/11189)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man1/CA.pl.pod | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man7/openssl-env.pod | 17 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/CA.pl.pod b/doc/man1/CA.pl.pod index db444d5683..4c53970890 100644 --- a/doc/man1/CA.pl.pod +++ b/doc/man1/CA.pl.pod @@ -174,11 +174,18 @@ Sign the request: CA.pl -signreq +=head1 ENVIRONMENT + +The environment variable B<OPENSSL_CONFIG> may be used to specify a +configuration option and value to the B<req> and B<ca> commands invoked by +this script. It's value should be the option and pathname, as in +C<-config /path/to/conf-file>. + =head1 NOTES Most of the filenames mentioned can be modified by editing the B<CA.pl> script. -If the demoCA directory already exists then the B<-newca> command will not +If the F<demoCA> directory already exists then the B<-newca> command will not overwrite it and will do nothing. This can happen if a previous call using the B<-newca> option terminated abnormally. To get the correct behaviour delete the demoCA directory if it already exists. diff --git a/doc/man7/openssl-env.pod b/doc/man7/openssl-env.pod index be89f85172..f59cd59610 100644 --- a/doc/man7/openssl-env.pod +++ b/doc/man7/openssl-env.pod @@ -20,15 +20,22 @@ See L<CTLOG_STORE_new(3)>. =item B<OPENSSL> -Specifies the path to the B<openssl> executable. Only used by -the B<rehash> script. -See L<openssl-rehash(1)/Script Configuration>. +Specifies the path to the B<openssl> executable. Used by +the B<rehash> script (see L<openssl-rehash(1)/Script Configuration>) +and by the B<CA.pl> script (see L<CA.pl(1)/NOTES> -=item B<OPENSSL_CONF> +=item B<OPENSSL_CONF>, B<OPENSSL_CONF_INCLUDE> -Specifies the path to a configuration file. +Specifies the path to a configuration file and the directory for +included files. See L<openssl(1)> and L<config(5)>. +=item B<OPENSSL_CONFIG> + +Specifies a configuration option and filename for the B<req> and B<ca> +commands invoked by the B<CA.pl> script. +See L<CA.pl(1)>. + =item B<OPENSSL_ENGINES> Specifies the directory from which dynamic engines are loaded. |