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| author | Todd Lyons <tlyons@exim.org> | 2013-09-23 16:31:31 -0700 |
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| committer | Todd Lyons <tlyons@exim.org> | 2013-09-23 17:46:08 -0700 |
| commit | 1ce2c5ce6d8a33b0b3ec8b331bf1d51356e61bc4 (patch) | |
| tree | 018916ccd4eede734c0780f8d9ab4311dcc69a1e /doc/doc-docbook | |
| parent | 33382dd9537a16c676e07632e122c0112855d5c3 (diff) | |
Add documentation for new $authenticated_fail_id
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt index ac95f2680..7ab482c3c 100644 --- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt +++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt @@ -10882,6 +10882,16 @@ the value of &$authenticated_id$& is normally the login name of the calling process. However, a trusted user can override this by means of the &%-oMai%& command line option. +.vitem &$authenticated_fail_id$& +.cindex "authentication" "fail" "id" +.vindex "&$authenticated_fail_id$&" +When an authentication attempt fails, the variable &$authenticated_fail_id$& +will contain the failed authentication id. If more than one authentication +id is attempted, it will contain only the last one. The variable is +available for processing in the ACL's, generally the quit or notquit ACL. +A message to a local recipient could still be accepted without requiring +authentication, which means this variable could also be visible in all of +the ACL's as well. @@ -24548,7 +24558,8 @@ to be returned. If the result of a successful expansion is an empty string, expansion is &"1"&, &"yes"&, or &"true"&, authentication succeeds and the generic &%server_set_id%& option is expanded and saved in &$authenticated_id$&. For any other result, a temporary error code is returned, with the expanded -string as the error text. +string as the error text, and the failed id saved in +&$authenticated_fail_id$&. &*Warning*&: If you use a lookup in the expansion to find the user's password, be sure to make the authentication fail if the user is unknown. |