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authorJacob Nevins <jacobn@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2022-10-21 01:55:19 +0300
committerJacob Nevins <jacobn@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2022-10-21 01:55:19 +0300
commit4af8a585e70cc03ae3e5dacd55c037ff09852f9b (patch)
treebb09cae4e4ed12e755ea147e905f44b03344a567 /doc
parent25ac012c4068976299ab397fcf221980a86ced63 (diff)
cmdgen: Fix docs and usage messages.
Some new cert-related stuff wasn't documented in the usage message and/or man page; and the longer-standing "-E fptype" was entirely omitted from the usage message.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/man-puttygen.but28
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man-puttygen.but b/doc/man-puttygen.but
index 092f05c0..e6a2c990 100644
--- a/doc/man-puttygen.but
+++ b/doc/man-puttygen.but
@@ -12,10 +12,12 @@
\e bbbbbbbb iiiiiii bb iiiiiii bb iiii bbbbbbbb iiiiii bb
\c [ -C new-comment ] [ -P ] [ --reencrypt ]
\e bb iiiiiiiiiii bb bbbbbbbbbbb
-\c [ -O output-type | -l | -L | -p | --dump ] [ -E fptype ]
-\e bb iiiiiiiiiii bb bb bb bbbbbb bb iiiiii
-\c [ --ppk-param key=value,... ]
-\e bbbbbbbbbbb iiibiiiiib
+\c [ --certificate cert-file | --remove-certificate ]
+\e bbbbbbbbbbbbb iiiiiiiii bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
+\c [ -O output-type | -l | -L | -p | --dump | --cert-info ]
+\e bb iiiiiiiiiii bb bb bb bbbbbb bbbbbbbbbbb
+\c [ --ppk-param key=value,... | -E fptype ]
+\e bbbbbbbbbbb iiibiiiiib bb iiiiii
\c [ -o output-file ]
\e bb iiiiiiiiiii
@@ -58,8 +60,9 @@ ssh.com's implementation.
You can also specify a file containing only a \e{public} key here.
The operations you can do are limited to outputting another public
-key format or a fingerprint. Public keys can be in RFC 4716 or
-OpenSSH format, or the standard SSH-1 format.
+key format (possibly removing an attached certificate first), or a
+fingerprint. Public keys can be in RFC 4716 or OpenSSH format, or
+the standard SSH-1 format.
}
@@ -148,7 +151,8 @@ modifying an existing key.
\dd Adds an OpenSSH-style certificate to the public half of the key,
so that the output file contains a certified public key with the same
private key. If the input file already contained a certificate, it
-will be replaced with the new one.
+will be replaced with the new one. (Use \cq{-} to read a certificate
+from standard input.)
\dt \cw{\-\-remove\-certificate}
@@ -288,8 +292,9 @@ SSH.
\lcont{
The output consists of a series of \cw{name=value} lines, where each
-\c{value} is either a C-like string literal in double quotes, or a
-hexadecimal number starting with \cw{0x...}
+\c{value} is either a C-like string literal in double quotes, a
+hexadecimal number starting with \cw{0x...}, or a binary blob
+encoded with base64, denoted by \cw{b64("...")}.
}
If no output type is specified, the default is \c{private}.
@@ -302,8 +307,9 @@ If no output type is specified, the default is \c{private}.
this option is not specified, \c{puttygen} will assume you want to
overwrite the original file if the input and output file types are
the same (changing a comment or passphrase), and will assume you
-want to output to stdout if you are asking for a public key or
-fingerprint. Otherwise, the \c{\-o} option is required.
+want to output to stdout if you are asking for a public key,
+fingerprint, or one of the textual dump types. Otherwise, the
+\c{\-o} option is required.
\dt \cw{\-l}