NAME

       openssl-namedisplay-options - Distinguished name display options

SYNOPSIS

       openssl command [ options ... ] [ parameters ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       OpenSSL provides fine-grain control over how the subject and issuer DN's are displayed.
       This is specified by using the -nameopt option, which takes a comma-separated list of
       options from the following set.  An option may be preceded by a minus sign, "-", to turn
       it off.  The default value is "oneline".  The first four are the most commonly used.

OPTIONS

   Name Format Option Arguments
       The DN output format can be fine tuned with the following flags.

       compat
           Display the name using an old format from previous OpenSSL versions.

       RFC2253
           Display the name using the format defined in RFC 2253.  It is equivalent to esc_2253,
           esc_ctrl, esc_msb, utf8, dump_nostr, dump_unknown, dump_der, sep_comma_plus, dn_rev
           and sname.

       oneline
           Display the name in one line, using a format that is more readable RFC 2253.  It is
           equivalent to esc_2253, esc_ctrl, esc_msb, utf8, dump_nostr, dump_der, use_quote,
           sep_comma_plus_space, space_eq and sname options.

       multiline
           Display the name using multiple lines.  It is equivalent to esc_ctrl, esc_msb,
           sep_multiline, space_eq, lname and align.

       esc_2253
           Escape the "special" characters in a field, as required by RFC 2253.  That is, any of
           the characters ",+"<>;", "#" at the beginning of a string and leading or trailing
           spaces.

       esc_2254
           Escape the "special" characters in a field as required by RFC 2254 in a field.  That
           is, the NUL character and of "()*".

       esc_ctrl
           Escape non-printable ASCII characters, codes less than 0x20 (space) or greater than
           0x7F (DELETE). They are displayed using RFC 2253 "\XX" notation where XX are the two
           hex digits representing the character value.

       esc_msb
           Escape any characters with the most significant bit set, that is with values larger
           than 127, as described in esc_ctrl.

       use_quote
           Escapes some characters by surrounding the entire string with quotation marks, """.
           Without this option, individual special characters are preceded with a backslash
           character, "\".

       utf8
           Convert all strings to UTF-8 format first as required by RFC 2253.  If the output
           device is UTF-8 compatible, then using this option (and not setting esc_msb) may give
           the correct display of multibyte characters.  If this option is not set, then
           multibyte characters larger than 0xFF will be output as "\UXXXX" for 16 bits or
           "\WXXXXXXXX" for 32 bits.  In addition, any UTF8Strings will be converted to their
           character form first.

       ignore_type
           This option does not attempt to interpret multibyte characters in any way. That is,
           the content octets are merely dumped as though one octet represents each character.
           This is useful for diagnostic purposes but will result in rather odd looking output.

       show_type
           Display the type of the ASN1 character string before the value, such as "BMPSTRING:
           Hello World".

       dump_der
           Any fields that would be output in hex format are displayed using the DER encoding of
           the field.  If not set, just the content octets are displayed.  Either way, the
           #XXXX... format of RFC 2253 is used.

       dump_nostr
           Dump non-character strings, such as ASN.1 OCTET STRING.  If this option is not set,
           then non character string types will be displayed as though each content octet
           represents a single character.

       dump_all
           Dump all fields. When this used with dump_der, this allows the DER encoding of the
           structure to be unambiguously determined.

       dump_unknown
           Dump any field whose OID is not recognised by OpenSSL.

       sep_comma_plus, sep_comma_plus_space, sep_semi_plus_space, sep_multiline
           Specify the field separators. The first word is used between the Relative
           Distinguished Names (RDNs) and the second is between multiple Attribute Value
           Assertions (AVAs). Multiple AVAs are very rare and their use is discouraged.  The
           options ending in "space" additionally place a space after the separator to make it
           more readable.  The sep_multiline starts each field on its own line, and uses "plus
           space" for the AVA separator.  It also indents the fields by four characters.  The
           default value is sep_comma_plus_space.

       dn_rev
           Reverse the fields of the DN as required by RFC 2253.  This also reverses the order of
           multiple AVAs in a field, but this is permissible as there is no ordering on values.

       nofname, sname, lname, oid
           Specify how the field name is displayed.  nofname does not display the field at all.
           sname uses the "short name" form (CN for commonName for example).  lname uses the long
           form.  oid represents the OID in numerical form and is useful for diagnostic purpose.

       align
           Align field values for a more readable output. Only usable with sep_multiline.

       space_eq
           Places spaces round the equal sign, "=", character which follows the field name.

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       Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License").  You may not use this file except
       in compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source
       distribution or at <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.