Commit fdb8113d authored Apr 03, 2018 by Matt Caswell

Document the change in the previous commit about loading the config file

When libssl is initialised it will attempt to load any config file. This
ensures any system_default configuration (as per
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4848

) is used.

Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5818)

parent d8f031e8

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		in libcrypto when run as setuid/setgid.
		[Bernd Edlinger]

		*) Load any config file by default when libssl is used.
		[Matt Caswell]

		*) Added new public header file <openssl/rand_drbg.h> and documentation
		for the RAND_DRBG API. See manual page RAND_DRBG(7) for an overview.
		[Matthias St. Pierre]

doc/man3/OPENSSL_init_crypto.pod

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		=item OPENSSL_INIT_LOAD_CONFIG

		With this option an OpenSSL configuration file will be automatically loaded and
		used by calling OPENSSL_config(). This is not a default option.
		See the description of OPENSSL_INIT_new(), below.
		used by calling OPENSSL_config(). This is not a default option for libcrypto.
		From OpenSSL 1.1.1 this is a default option for libssl (see
		L<OPENSSL_init_ssl(3)> for further details about libssl initialisation). See the
		description of OPENSSL_INIT_new(), below.

		=item OPENSSL_INIT_NO_LOAD_CONFIG