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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2012-08-15 18:25:51 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2012-08-15 18:25:51 +0000
commit8629210735955c5e2146144bc2fec9646c07f7ed (patch)
treeda4fd10d7ab4fc1d4604a1e2d870b6790d801203
parent040c298a24acf3dcab1d362c85606860473e8790 (diff)
a little more info on certificate validity;
requested by Ross L Richardson, and provided by djm
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/ssh/ssh-keygen.18
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-keygen.1 b/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-keygen.1
index 03f927edfcb..1d5564640bf 100644
--- a/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-keygen.1
+++ b/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-keygen.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-keygen.1,v 1.109 2012/07/06 00:41:59 dtucker Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-keygen.1,v 1.110 2012/08/15 18:25:50 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 6 2012 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 15 2012 $
.Dt SSH-KEYGEN 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -628,7 +628,9 @@ The
option allows specification of certificate start and end times.
A certificate that is presented at a time outside this range will not be
considered valid.
-By default, certificates have a maximum validity interval.
+By default, certificates are valid from
+.Ux
+Epoch to the distant future.
.Pp
For certificates to be used for user or host authentication, the CA
public key must be trusted by