Commit 7d3d1788 authored by Dr. Stephen Henson's avatar Dr. Stephen Henson
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The meaning of the X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY and 

X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT error codes were reversed in
the verify application documentation.
parent 2d9dcd4f

doc/apps/verify.pod

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@@ -240,8 +240,8 @@ the operation was successful. 


=item B<2 X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT: unable to get issuer certificate>



the issuer certificate could not be found: this occurs if the issuer certificate

of an untrusted certificate cannot be found.

the issuer certificate of a looked up certificate could not be found. This

normally means the list of trusted certificates is not complete.



=item B<3 X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_CRL: unable to get certificate CRL>
@@ -318,8 +318,8 @@ be found locally. 


=item B<20 X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY: unable to get local issuer certificate>



the issuer certificate of a locally looked up certificate could not be found. This normally means

the list of trusted certificates is not complete.

the issuer certificate could not be found: this occurs if the issuer

certificate of an untrusted certificate cannot be found.



=item B<21 X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE: unable to verify the first certificate>
@@ -395,6 +395,10 @@ the certificates in the file will be recognised. 
Previous versions of OpenSSL assume certificates with matching subject name are identical and

mishandled them.



Previous versions of this documentation swapped the meaning of the

B<X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT> and

B<20 X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY> error codes.



=head1 SEE ALSO



L<x509(1)|x509(1)>