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| author | Dr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com> | 2020-12-24 07:42:08 +0100 |
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| committer | Dr. David von Oheimb <dev@ddvo.net> | 2021-01-13 11:53:15 +0100 |
| commit | ea9fd333d19096d654cb252a2f6785ca03bfcbc1 (patch) | |
| tree | f8c321713cb30c1c9d43c4e74da29ba40fb4a267 /doc/man1 | |
| parent | 7836f949c2550a00fe2720e96cfaffd824d357d1 (diff) | |
| download | openssl-new-ea9fd333d19096d654cb252a2f6785ca03bfcbc1.tar.gz | |
apps/req.c: make -subj work with -x509; clean up related code
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/13658)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man1')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man1/openssl-req.pod.in | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/openssl-req.pod.in b/doc/man1/openssl-req.pod.in index 56de841981..f73b7fbb9d 100644 --- a/doc/man1/openssl-req.pod.in +++ b/doc/man1/openssl-req.pod.in @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Print out a usage message. =item B<-inform> B<DER>|B<PEM>, B<-outform> B<DER>|B<PEM> -The input and formats; the default is B<PEM>. +The input and output formats; the default is B<PEM>. See L<openssl-format-options(1)> for details. The data is a PKCS#10 object. @@ -190,7 +190,8 @@ See L<openssl-genpkey(1)/KEY GENERATION OPTIONS> for more details. =item B<-key> I<filename>|I<uri> -This specifies the private key to use for self-signature. +This specifies the private key to use for request self-signature +and signing certificates produced using the B<-x509> option. It also accepts PKCS#8 format private keys for PEM format files. =item B<-keyform> B<DER>|B<PEM>|B<P12>|B<ENGINE> |