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| author | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2010-08-16 15:59:26 -0700 |
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| committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2010-08-19 09:42:14 -0700 |
| commit | 812560d7cea7f618f8fd7110063e8dd039547006 (patch) | |
| tree | ca8aaca9b2791c156dee3f96a0dd2509dffd248b /lib/ssl-peer-ca-cert.man | |
| parent | a946ed39420c86cd3cf98436f9b1005c85f9bb31 (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-812560d7cea7f618f8fd7110063e8dd039547006.tar.gz | |
Fix SSL boilerplate descriptions in manpages.
Some of the SSL boilerplate was specific to switches, but it was included
in OVSDB programs also. Make it more generic. Also document SSL options
in some manpages where they were missing.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/ssl-peer-ca-cert.man')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/ssl-peer-ca-cert.man | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ssl-peer-ca-cert.man b/lib/ssl-peer-ca-cert.man index cfdd915ec..5450b9ef4 100644 --- a/lib/ssl-peer-ca-cert.man +++ b/lib/ssl-peer-ca-cert.man @@ -1,12 +1,13 @@ .IP "\fB\-\-peer\-ca\-cert=\fIpeer-cacert.pem\fR" Specifies a PEM file that contains one or more additional certificates to send to SSL peers. \fIpeer-cacert.pem\fR should be the CA -certificate used to sign the \fB\*(PN\fR own certificate (the -certificate specified on \fB\-c\fR or \fB\-\-certificate\fR). +certificate used to sign \fB\*(PN\fR's own certificate, that is, the +certificate specified on \fB\-c\fR or \fB\-\-certificate\fR. If +\fB\*(PN\fR's certificate is self-signed, then \fB\-\-certificate\fR +and \fB\-\-peer\-ca\-cert\fR should specify the same file. .IP This option is not useful in normal operation, because the SSL peer must already have the CA certificate for the peer to have any -confidence in \fB\*(PN\fR's identity. However, this option allows a -newly installed switch to obtain the peer CA certificate on first boot -using, e.g., the \fB\-\-bootstrap\-ca\-cert\fR option to -\fBovs\-openflowd\fR(8). +confidence in \fB\*(PN\fR's identity. However, this offers a way for +a new installation to bootstrap the CA certificate on its first SSL +connection. |