Generting Symmetric key fails with key-generate when --usages verify is passed
    
    Ticket #1114
    
    Minor adjustment to the man page for the key management commands to say
    which usages are appropriate for sym keys and those appropriate for asym 
keys.
    
From a211222ee4b30ad390228adeb96645fd840be3ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jack Magne <jma...@dhcp-16-206.sjc.redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 17:04:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Generting Symmetric key fails with key-generate when --usages
 verify is passed

Ticket #1114

Minor adjustment to the man page for the key management commands to say
which usages are appropriate for sym keys and those appropriate for asym keys.

t
---
 base/java-tools/man/man1/pki-key.1 | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/base/java-tools/man/man1/pki-key.1 b/base/java-tools/man/man1/pki-key.1
index 30ac909..669ab86 100644
--- a/base/java-tools/man/man1/pki-key.1
+++ b/base/java-tools/man/man1/pki-key.1
@@ -329,7 +329,9 @@ Following is the description of the various parameters in the key retrieval temp
     -- clientKeyID - Client specified unique key identifier
     -- keyAlgorithm - Algorithm to be used to generate key (AES/DES/DES3/DESede/RC2/RC4)
     -- keySize - Value for the size of the key to be generated.
-    -- keyUsage - usages of the generated key(wrap,unwrap,sign,verify,encrypt,decrypt)
+    -- keyUsage - usages of the generated key
+        useful for Symmetric Keys (DES3,AES,etc) (wrap,unwrap,encrypt,decrypt)
+        useful for Asymmetric Keys (RSA, EC,etc) (wrap,unwrap,encrypt,decrypt,sign,verify,sign_recover,verify_recover)
 
 To create a key generation request using the template file:
 
-- 
2.5.0

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