123996 - certutil -H doesn't document "certutil -C -a"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(NSS :: Tools, defect, P3)

Description

[Jamie Nicolson]

The help page for certutil emphasizes that "certutil -C" takes a BINARY cert
request. It doesn't mention that you can specify the "-a" flag to accept an
ASCII cert request, which is what most people have anyway.

Comment 1

[Wan-Teh Chang]

Changed the QA contact to Bishakha.

Comment 2

[Wan-Teh Chang]

Changed the component to Tools.

Comment 3

[Wan-Teh Chang]

Changed the component back to Documentation.  I am
not myself today.

Comment 4

[Julien Pierre]

Actually I think tools was the right component, since the help page is in the tool itself.

Comment 5

[Julien Pierre]

Attachment: Add documentation

Comment 6

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Comment on attachment 271165 [details] [diff] [review]
Add documentation

guessing about the real MIME content type of this attachment

Comment 7

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Comment on attachment 271165 [details] [diff] [review]
Add documentation

Ah, it's a patch

Comment 8

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Comment on attachment 271165 [details] [diff] [review]
Add documentation

sure, we can make this change.  But it's reaally time for someone to overhaul certutil's help/usage messages to eliminate all the duplication of information about common options.

Comment 9

[Julien Pierre]

Thanks for the quick review, Nelson. The consolidation should be done in a separate bug.

I checked this in to the tip.

Checking in certutil.c;
/cvsroot/mozilla/security/nss/cmd/certutil/certutil.c,v  <--  certutil.c
new revision: 1.113; previous revision: 1.112
done