On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 10:33:10AM +0200, Michael Bell wrote:
> Lutz Jaenicke schrieb:
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 08:07:43PM +0100, Dr S N Henson wrote:
> > > However a new FAQ entry might be in order or possibly changing the
> > > default display options so that the old behaviour is no longer the
> > > default and adding a "-nameopt old" option is explicitly needed instead.
> >
> > -nameopt compat shall retain compatibility.
> > Hmm, make "oneline" the new default? Or rather leave it "as is" and just
> > add it to the FAQ. Robert Joop and Michael Bell, active in discussing
> > DN issues, are with the OpenCA project. It should be possible for them
> > to catch the problem by using an appropriate command line flag when
> > calling "openssl x509".
>
> I think the FAQ entry is enough. If you set a new default then you can
> surprise many small scripts and their users. The flag -nameopt is a good
> solution.
I have added the entry.
> The only problem for the future is the support of this flag in all the
> other tools (especially ca and req have problems with their option
> -subj).
Robert Joop sent a patch last week (not applied, yet). Does it solve the
problems you mention?
Best regards,
Lutz
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