From eeb3fbf670789435ac83b0fba9bf313fe2c95bc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jinmei <jinmei>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 19:41:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] provided an easy way to generate a new secret using openssl.

---
 kame/kame/dhcp6/dhcp6c.conf.5 | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kame/kame/dhcp6/dhcp6c.conf.5 b/kame/kame/dhcp6/dhcp6c.conf.5
index c78f1fd9ee..e8b3bb01f0 100644
--- a/kame/kame/dhcp6/dhcp6c.conf.5
+++ b/kame/kame/dhcp6/dhcp6c.conf.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$KAME: dhcp6c.conf.5,v 1.28 2005/02/03 19:37:35 jinmei Exp $
+.\"	$KAME: dhcp6c.conf.5,v 1.29 2005/02/03 19:41:31 jinmei Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (C) 2002 WIDE Project.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -549,6 +549,18 @@ keyinfo kame-key {
 };
 .Ed
 .Pp
+One easy way of generating a new secret in the base64 format is to
+execute the
+.Xr openssl 1
+command (when available) as follows,
+.Bd -literal -offset
+% openssl rand -base64 16
+.Ed
+.Pp
+and copy the output to the
+.Nm dhcp6c.conf
+file.
+.Pp
 To include an authentication option for DHCPv6 authentication,
 the
 .Ic interface