Commit 3aba132d authored by Adam Williamson's avatar Adam Williamson Committed by Rich Salz
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RT3511: doc fix; req default serial is random 



RT842, closed back in 2004, changed the default serial number
to be a random number rather than zero.  Finally time to update
the doc

Reviewed-by: default avatarTim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
parent 9fc8dc54

doc/apps/req.pod

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@@ -235,8 +235,8 @@ this option outputs a self signed certificate instead of a certificate 
request. This is typically used to generate a test certificate or

a self signed root CA. The extensions added to the certificate

(if any) are specified in the configuration file. Unless specified

using the B<set_serial> option B<0> will be used for the serial

number.

using the B<set_serial> option, a large random number will be used for

the serial number.



=item B<-days n>