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authorTed Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org>2017-07-08 02:13:37 +0000
committerTed Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org>2017-07-08 02:13:37 +0000
commit1e3cea7680e16b686a9fc131466641bb78c9a7c1 (patch)
treebe854dada6e0fbe0973a8155f758ca9dd19d4a6d /share/man
parent5d2bcf68791461727b19be792b0d92f8384293c6 (diff)
add a hint about subjectAltName. this isn't great, but i'm not sure how
to improve it without muddying up the whole page, and at a minimum it gives the reader a clue about some concepts to search the web for. if you can do better, make it so. :)
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man8/ssl.814
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man8/ssl.8 b/share/man/man8/ssl.8
index d69c46f8c0b..2a7641b921c 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/ssl.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/ssl.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ssl.8,v 1.64 2016/06/06 15:26:04 sthen Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ssl.8,v 1.65 2017/07/08 02:13:36 tedu Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Theo de Raadt, Bob Beck
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\" (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: June 6 2016 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 8 2017 $
.Dt SSL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -94,6 +94,16 @@ You can also sign the key yourself, using the command:
-out /etc/ssl/server.crt
.Ed
.Pp
+Note that some new browsers have deprecated using the common name of a
+certifate and require that subject alt names be provided.
+This may require the use of
+.Ar -extfile Pa server.ext
+when self-signing.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+# this is an example server.ext file
+subjectAltName=DNS:example.com,DNS:www.example.com
+.Ed
+.Pp
With
.Pa /etc/ssl/server.crt
and