Commit a8c5ed81 authored by xemdetia's avatar xemdetia Committed by Benjamin Kaduk
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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: default avatarRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBen Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/3959)
parent bac6abe1

doc/man5/config.pod

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@@ -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]