From 662147243540f386d55cdfc76591ab42c1ea7323 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aaron Jones Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 05:41:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] reference.conf: Document fingerprint generation [ci skip] --- doc/reference.conf | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/reference.conf b/doc/reference.conf index 66e738bd..995075df 100644 --- a/doc/reference.conf +++ b/doc/reference.conf @@ -1418,7 +1418,12 @@ general { * The spki_* variants operate on the SubjectPublicKeyInfo of the certificate, which does * not change unless the private key is changed. This allows the fingerprint to stay * constant even if the certificate is reissued. These fingerprints will be prefixed with - * "SPKI:SHA2-256:" or "SPKI:SHA2-512:" depending on the hash type. + * "SPKI:SHA2-256:" or "SPKI:SHA2-512:" depending on the hash type. These fingerprints + * are not supported on servers running charybdis 3.5 or earlier. + * + * To generate a fingerprint from a certificate file, please use the mkfingerprint utility + * program located in the bin/ subdirectory of your IRCd installation. Running it with no + * arguments will give you a brief usage message; it takes method and filename arguments. */ certfp_method = spki_sha256;