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| author | Dr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com> | 2021-11-10 09:39:55 +0100 |
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| committer | Dr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com> | 2021-12-07 15:14:49 +0100 |
| commit | 317acac5cc0a2cb31bc4b91353c2b752a3989d8a (patch) | |
| tree | b14ee6f412c1ac6a5957c10f8c29d0c0d2066041 /doc/man5/x509v3_config.pod | |
| parent | 15ac84e603678140ba32832c288e5f1745a258f8 (diff) | |
| download | openssl-317acac5cc0a2cb31bc4b91353c2b752a3989d8a.tar.gz | |
X509V3_set_ctx(): Clarify subject/req parameter for constructing SAN email addresses from subject DN
Also slightly improve the style of the respective code in crypto/x509/v3_san.c.
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/17145)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man5/x509v3_config.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man5/x509v3_config.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man5/x509v3_config.pod b/doc/man5/x509v3_config.pod index 0114b45505..fb9e562d7f 100644 --- a/doc/man5/x509v3_config.pod +++ b/doc/man5/x509v3_config.pod @@ -229,9 +229,11 @@ B<dirName> (a distinguished name), and B<otherName>. The syntax of each is described in the following paragraphs. -The B<email> option has a special C<copy> value, which will automatically -include any email addresses contained in the certificate subject name in -the extension. +The B<email> option has two special values. +C<copy> will automatically include any email addresses +contained in the certificate subject name in the extension. +C<move> will automatically move any email addresses +from the certificate subject name to the extension. The IP address used in the B<IP> option can be in either IPv4 or IPv6 format. |