Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm trying to work out if /etc/pki/tls/openssl.cnf
> is actually used, and if so how one should edit it.
> The file provided with Fedora says it is an "example",
> and says, inter alia,
> dir = ../../CA # Where everything is kept
> although in my case at least this directory is empty.
>
> I glanced through openssl documentation,
> but did not see any mention of this particular file.
>
> Perhaps there is some document that would explain to me
> the purpose of this file?
The format of this file is described in the config(5) manpage,
provided with openssl. If you wanted to change the defaults for
creating ssl certificates and such, you could edit this file and avoid
the need to manually enter some of the information each time you run
various openssl commands.
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