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| Original text by James Westby, contributed under the OpenSSL license. |
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| =head1 NAME |
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| c_rehash - Create symbolic links to files named by the hash values |
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| =head1 SYNOPSIS |
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| B<c_rehash> |
| B<[-old]> |
| B<[-h]> |
| B<[-n]> |
| B<[-v]> |
| [ I<directory>...] |
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| =head1 DESCRIPTION |
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| B<c_rehash> scans directories and calculates a hash value of each |
| C<.pem>, C<.crt>, C<.cer>, or C<.crl> |
| file in the specified directory list and creates symbolic links |
| for each file, where the name of the link is the hash value. |
| (If the platform does not support symbolic links, a copy is made.) |
| This utility is useful as many programs that use OpenSSL require |
| directories to be set up like this in order to find certificates. |
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| If any directories are named on the command line, then those are |
| processed in turn. If not, then the B<SSL_CERT_DIR> environment variable |
| is consulted; this shold be a colon-separated list of directories, |
| like the Unix B<PATH> variable. |
| If that is not set then the default directory (installation-specific |
| but often B</usr/local/ssl/certs>) is processed. |
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| In order for a directory to be processed, the user must have write |
| permissions on that directory, otherwise it will be skipped. |
| The links created are of the form C<HHHHHHHH.D>, where each B<H> |
| is a hexadecimal character and B<D> is a single decimal digit. |
| When processing a directory, B<c_rehash> will first remove all links |
| that have a name in that syntax. If you have links in that format |
| used for other purposes, they will be removed. |
| To skip the removal step, use the B<-n> flag. |
| Hashes for CRL's look similar except the letter B<r> appears after |
| the period, like this: C<HHHHHHHH.rD>. |
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| Multiple objects may have the same hash; they will be indicated by |
| incrementing the B<D> value. Duplicates are found by comparing the |
| full SHA-1 fingerprint. A warning will be displayed if a duplicate |
| is found. |
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| A warning will also be displayed if there are files that |
| cannot be parsed as either a certificate or a CRL. |
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| The program uses the B<openssl> program to compute the hashes and |
| fingerprints. If not found in the user's B<PATH>, then set the |
| B<OPENSSL> environment variable to the full pathname. |
| Any program can be used, it will be invoked as follows for either |
| a certificate or CRL: |
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| $OPENSSL x509 -hash -fingerprint -noout -in FILENAME |
| $OPENSSL crl -hash -fingerprint -noout -in FILENAME |
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| where B<FILENAME> is the filename. It must output the hash of the |
| file on the first line, and the fingerprint on the second, |
| optionally prefixed with some text and an equals sign. |
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| =head1 OPTIONS |
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| =over 4 |
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| =item B<-old> |
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| Use old-style hashing (MD5, as opposed to SHA-1) for generating |
| links for releases before 1.0.0. Note that current versions will |
| not use the old style. |
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| =item B<-h> |
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| Display a brief usage message. |
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| =item B<-n> |
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| Do not remove existing links. |
| This is needed when keeping new and old-style links in the same directory. |
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| =item B<-v> |
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| Print messages about old links removed and new links created. |
| By default, B<c_rehash> only lists each directory as it is processed. |
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| =back |
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| =head1 ENVIRONMENT |
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| =over |
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| =item B<OPENSSL> |
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| The path to an executable to use to generate hashes and |
| fingerprints (see above). |
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| =item B<SSL_CERT_DIR> |
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| Colon separated list of directories to operate on. |
| Ignored if directories are listed on the command line. |
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| =back |
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| =head1 SEE ALSO |
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| L<openssl(1)|openssl(1)>, |
| L<crl(1)|crl(1)>. |
| L<x509(1)|x509(1)>. |
