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commit a8c5ed812d1537728807059b4182d358bb2ca7c1
Author: xemdetia <xemde...@808inorganic.com>
Date: Tue Jul 18 13:57:25 2017 -0400
Document default section and library configuration
It is talked around but not explicitly stated in one part of the
documentation that you should put library configuration lines at the
start of the configuration file.
CLA: trivial
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rs...@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levi...@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Ben Kaduk <ka...@mit.edu>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/3959)
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Summary of changes:
doc/man5/config.pod | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/man5/config.pod b/doc/man5/config.pod
index ba9a8ab..a7cc16b 100644
--- a/doc/man5/config.pod
+++ b/doc/man5/config.pod
@@ -64,7 +64,9 @@ file.
To enable library configuration the default section needs to contain an
appropriate line which points to the main configuration section. The default
name is B<openssl_conf> which is used by the B<openssl> utility. Other
-applications may use an alternative name such as B<myapplicaton_conf>.
+applications may use an alternative name such as B<myapplication_conf>.
+All library configuration lines appear in the default section at the start
+of the configuration file.
The configuration section should consist of a set of name value pairs which
contain specific module configuration information. The B<name> represents
@@ -72,6 +74,7 @@ the name of the I<configuration module> the meaning of the
B<value> is
module specific: it may, for example, represent a further configuration
section containing configuration module specific information. E.g.
+ # This must be in the default section
openssl_conf = openssl_init
[openssl_init]
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