On 08/11/2018 12:44, Dmitry Belyavsky wrote: > Hello, > > can anybody clarify what for the abbreviations AVA and RDN stand for? RDN == Relative Distinguised Name AVA == Attribute Value Assertion An RDN consists of an unordered set of AVAs (but most frequently an RDN is made up of exactly one AVA, e.g. CN = "John"). A Distinguished Name (DN) is made up of a sequence of RDNs. That man page could probably do with some work to reduce the jargon. Matt > > ============ > sep_comma_plus, sep_comma_plus_space, sep_semi_plus_space, sep_multiline > These options determine the field separators. The first character is > between RDNs and the second between multiple AVAs (multiple AVAs are > very rare and their use is discouraged). The options ending in "space" > additionally place a space after the separator to make it more readable. > The sep_multiline uses a linefeed character for the RDN separator and a > spaced + for the AVA separator. It also indents the fields by four > characters. If no field separator is specified then sep_comma_plus_space > is used by default. > ============= > > Thank you! > -- > SY, Dmitry Belyavsky > -- openssl-users mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-users
