From 419f0c6af790f61f4b147912f81902e9bfe4094a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aaron Jones <aaronmdjones@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 05:41:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] reference.conf: Document fingerprint generation

[ci skip]
---
 doc/reference.conf | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/reference.conf b/doc/reference.conf
index 10802b09..749fc48f 100755
--- a/doc/reference.conf
+++ b/doc/reference.conf
@@ -1318,6 +1318,9 @@ general {
 	/* certfp_method: the method that should be used for computing certificate fingerprints.
 	 * Acceptable options are sha1, sha256 and sha512.  Networks running versions of charybdis
 	 * prior to charybdis 3.5 MUST use sha1 for certfp_method.
+	 *
+	 * To generate a fingerprint from a certificate file, run the following:
+	 * $ openssl x509 -outform DER < your.crt | sha1sum     (or sha256sum, or sha512sum)
 	 */
 	certfp_method = sha1;
 };