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Add an option to change the subject when signing a request. #439
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Very useful patch thanks - looking forward to seeing this merged ASAP. Note the help text in the usage() method on line 34 also needs updating to list the optional cmd-opts parameter. |
Having to manually build an entire, syntactically correct, Instead, the intent could be to overwrite the request The only other change which may be of value, is to change the Example:
Centrally administering the |
@mat813 There is one problem with this PR. When I know this has been hanging around for far too long. I am happy to use the idea presented here but I would prefer to implement it differently. My method allows the following (detailed here for discussion):
It sounds complicated but is fairly simple in practice. The only outstanding problem is the file-name of the output certificate will still be named |
Potentially superseded by #995 |
Superseded-by: #1111 Contribution attributed. |
Sometime, you get a request with "extra" information you would rather not have in the final certificate, this change allows changing the subject of the request when producing the certificate. This is done by adding an option to sign-req :