RetroZilla/security/nss/doc/pp.xml

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<refentry id="pp">

  <refentryinfo>
    <date>&date;</date>
    <title>NSS Security Tools</title>
    <productname>nss-tools</productname>
    <productnumber>&version;</productnumber>
  </refentryinfo>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>PP</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>pp</refname>
    <refpurpose>Prints certificates, keys, crls, and pkcs7 files</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis>
      <command>pp -t type [-a] [-i input] [-o output] [-u] [-w]</command>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>
  
  <refsection>
    <title>STATUS</title>
    <para>This documentation is still work in progress. Please contribute to the initial review in <ulink url="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836477">Mozilla NSS bug 836477</ulink>
    </para>
  </refsection>

  <refsection>
    <title>Description</title>

    <para><command>pp </command>pretty-prints private and public key, certificate, certificate-request,
                     pkcs7 or crl files
    </para>

  </refsection>

<refsection>
    <title>Options</title>
    
    <variablelist>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-t </option> <replaceable>type</replaceable></term>
        <listitem>
          <simpara>specify the input, one of {private-key | public-key | certificate | certificate-request | pkcs7 | crl}</simpara>
          <simpara></simpara>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-a </option></term>
        <listitem>
          <simpara>Input is in ascii encoded form (RFC1113)</simpara>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-i </option> <replaceable>inputfile</replaceable></term>
        <listitem>
          <simpara>Define an input file to use (default is stdin)</simpara>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-o </option> <replaceable>outputfile</replaceable></term>
        <listitem>
          <simpara>Define an output file to use (default is stdout)</simpara>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-u </option> </term>
        <listitem>
          <simpara>Use UTF-8 (default is to show non-ascii as .)</simpara>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-w </option> </term>
        <listitem>
          <simpara>Don't wrap long output lines</simpara>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>
  </refsection>

  <refsection id="resources">
    <title>Additional Resources</title>
    <para>NSS is maintained in conjunction with PKI and security-related projects through Mozilla and Fedora. The most closely-related project is Dogtag PKI, with a project wiki at <ulink url="http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/">PKI Wiki</ulink>. </para>
	<para>For information specifically about NSS, the NSS project wiki is located at <ulink url="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/">Mozilla NSS site</ulink>. The NSS site relates directly to NSS code changes and releases.</para>
	<para>Mailing lists: pki-devel@redhat.com and pki-users@redhat.com</para>
	<para>IRC: Freenode at #dogtag-pki</para>
  </refsection>

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  <refsection id="authors">
    <title>Authors</title>
    <para>The NSS tools were written and maintained by developers with Netscape, Red Hat,  Sun, Oracle, Mozilla, and Google.</para>
    <para>
	Authors: Elio Maldonado &lt;emaldona@redhat.com>, Deon Lackey &lt;dlackey@redhat.com>.
    </para>
  </refsection>

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  <refsection id="license">
    <title>LICENSE</title>
    <para>Licensed under the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0.  If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
    </para>
  </refsection>

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