tinyca2.1.man

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.TH TINYCA 1 "January  5, 2017"
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.SH NAME
tinyca \- Very simple Certification Authority
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B tinyca
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B tinyca
command.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
.PP
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\fBtinyca\fP is a very simple Certification Authority.  It features a graphical
interface to create Certificate Requests, sign them with the key of the
Certificate Authority and export the signed certificate and the corresponding
keys in various formats.
.PP
Upon first invocation, information for a new Certificate Authority is generated.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BR \-\-basedir =\fICA_basedir\fR
Specifies the base dir for your CA. Default is ~/.TinyCA.
.TP
.BR \-\-exportdir =\fIdir\fR
Specifies the default dir for keys and certificates export. Default is ~/.
.TP
.BR \-\-templatedir =\fItemplates_path\fR
Specifies the directory where template openssl.cnf is located. Default is ./templates.
.TP
.BR \-\-opensslbin =\fIopenssl_binary\fR
Specifies where openssl binary is located. Default is /usr/bin/openssl.
.TP
.BR \-\-zipbin =\fIzip_binary\fR
Specifies where zip binary is located. Default is /usr/bin/zip.
.TP
.BR \-\-tarbin =\fItar_binary\fR
Specifies where tar binary is located. Default is /bin/tar.
.SH FILES
.PP
.IP "./templates/openssl.cnf"
Template openssl configuration for tinyca
.IP "~/.TinyCA/"
Storage place for the different CAs
.SH SEE ALSO
.PP
.BR openssl(1).
.SH AUTHOR
.PP
This manual page was written by Ulrich Scholler <scholler@fnb.tu-darmstadt.de>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Also this man page was modified according to recent changes.