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authorA J Mohan Rao <mohan@computer.com>2016-02-06 23:12:35 +0530
committerRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>2016-02-06 14:06:52 -0500
commit6755ff11286b8eb6fdfa17719af9e7bf606bb94b (patch)
treee01d412db1dd04c99307e2b6eb83dc703132b1c8 /doc
parent0ca2e82ab1575f9c4eed259c4d66ca9372a45bf5 (diff)
downloadopenssl-6755ff11286b8eb6fdfa17719af9e7bf606bb94b.tar.gz
commands help cleanup
opt_valtype 0 is same as '-' while printing cmd usage asn1parse/ca/ciphers help cleanup Signed-off-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/apps/ca.pod23
-rw-r--r--doc/apps/ciphers.pod4
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apps/ca.pod b/doc/apps/ca.pod
index 73b6d22e72..c2acd72038 100644
--- a/doc/apps/ca.pod
+++ b/doc/apps/ca.pod
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ B<openssl> B<ca>
[B<-engine id>]
[B<-subj arg>]
[B<-utf8>]
+[B<-create_serial>]
[B<-multivalue-rdn>]
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -65,6 +66,14 @@ The options descriptions will be divided into each purpose.
=over 4
+=item B<-help>
+
+Print out a usage message.
+
+=item B<-verbose>
+
+this prints extra details about the operations being performed.
+
=item B<-config filename>
specifies the configuration file to use.
@@ -144,14 +153,6 @@ self-signed certificate.
the key password source. For more information about the format of B<arg>
see the B<PASS PHRASE ARGUMENTS> section in L<openssl(1)>.
-=item B<-help>
-
-Print out a usage message.
-
-=item B<-verbose>
-
-this prints extra details about the operations being performed.
-
=item B<-notext>
don't output the text form of a certificate to the output file.
@@ -249,6 +250,12 @@ default they are interpreted as ASCII. This means that the field
values, whether prompted from a terminal or obtained from a
configuration file, must be valid UTF8 strings.
+=item B<-create_serial>
+
+if reading serial from the text file as specified in the configuration
+fails, specifying this option creates a new random serial to be used as next
+serial number.
+
=item B<-multivalue-rdn>
This option causes the -subj argument to be interpreted with full
diff --git a/doc/apps/ciphers.pod b/doc/apps/ciphers.pod
index 9029adab53..066f1e6349 100644
--- a/doc/apps/ciphers.pod
+++ b/doc/apps/ciphers.pod
@@ -74,10 +74,6 @@ List the ciphers which would be used if TLS v1.2 was negotiated.
precede each ciphersuite by its standard name: only available is OpenSSL
is built with tracing enabled (B<enable-ssl-trace> argument to Configure).
-=item B<-h>, B<-?>
-
-print a brief usage message.
-
=item B<cipherlist>
a cipher list to convert to a cipher preference list. If it is not included