Option '--renew-days=#', variable $EASYRSA_CERT_RENEW was used to enforce a
"grace" period, *outside of which* 'renew' was prohibited. Default: 30days.
This prohibition is no longer enforced:
* https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa/issues/593
Option '--renew-days=#' now represents the cut-off date for EasyRSA status
report 'show-expire'. This report *only* lists those certificates which will
expire within the given $EASYRSA_CERT_RENEW number of days 'from now'.
This also effects the command 'renewable'. (Only supports GNU 'date')
Updates to 'help options'.
(1) Official notice of "intention to deprecate" option: '--req-cn'
EasyRSA has *never* supported '--req-cn'.
For "type" server/client 'Build-$type-full' AlWAYS explicitly sets variable
EASYRSA_REQ_CN to $2 from the command line. Always over-riding the option.
'gen-req' explicitly sets 'EASYRSA_REQ_CN="$1"'. Always over-riding ..
'sign-req' explicitly sets 'crt_out="$EASYRSA_PKI/issued/$2.crt"' .. ditto.
'build-ca' requires specific code review to understand.
Labeled as: "May have tried but gave up.."
This is *only* a notice of "intention to deprecate".
The main goal of the option '--req-cn' is to achieve a disconnect between
certificate 'commonName' verses the 'file-name' of the certificate.
Eg: file-name: mmjd0101.crt | commonName: "mass-murderer John Doe (#0101)"
There is "merit" to this functionality but then .. EasyRSA is Free-OSS.
"If You need this functionality then You should help provide it."
Signed-off-by: Richard T Bonhomme <tincantech@protonmail.com>
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