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help: adding a topic on flags This is a short topic to explain how command-line flags can be specified. Some users have been confused by hg offerring different flag syntax than some other libraries, so it'd be nice to point them to this rather than explaining it every time. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D1270

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Generate a private key (priv.pem):
$ openssl genrsa -out priv.pem 2048
Generate 2 self-signed certificates from this key (pub.pem, pub-other.pem):
$ openssl req -new -x509 -key priv.pem -nodes -sha256 -days 9000 \
-out pub.pem -batch -subj '/CN=localhost/emailAddress=hg@localhost/'
$ openssl req -new -x509 -key priv.pem -nodes -sha256 -days 9000 \
-out pub-other.pem -batch -subj '/CN=localhost/emailAddress=hg@localhost/'
Now generate an expired certificate by turning back the system time:
$ faketime 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z \
openssl req -new -x509 -key priv.pem -nodes -sha256 -days 1 \
-out pub-expired.pem -batch -subj '/CN=localhost/emailAddress=hg@localhost/'
Generate a certificate not yet active by advancing the system time:
$ faketime 2030-01-1T00:00:00Z \
openssl req -new -x509 -key priv.pem -nodes -sha256 -days 1 \
-out pub-not-yet.pem -batch -subj '/CN=localhost/emailAddress=hg@localhost/'
Generate a passphrase protected client certificate private key:
$ openssl genrsa -aes256 -passout pass:1234 -out client-key.pem 2048
Create a copy of the private key without a passphrase:
$ openssl rsa -in client-key.pem -passin pass:1234 -out client-key-decrypted.pem
Create a CSR and sign the key using the server keypair:
$ printf '.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\nhg-client@localhost\n.\n.\n' | \
openssl req -new -key client-key.pem -passin pass:1234 -out client-csr.pem
$ openssl x509 -req -days 9000 -in client-csr.pem -CA pub.pem -CAkey priv.pem \
-set_serial 01 -out client-cert.pem
When replacing the certificates, references to certificate fingerprints will
need to be updated in test files.
Fingerprints for certs can be obtained by running:
$ openssl x509 -in pub.pem -noout -sha1 -fingerprint
$ openssl x509 -in pub.pem -noout -sha256 -fingerprint