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| author | Jeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org> | 2021-01-12 15:36:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Jeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org> | 2021-01-12 15:36:09 +0000 |
| commit | ca22cc0abe93c28f3d296d99c239413bb0d079c4 (patch) | |
| tree | 9551083f2f73ed3bab0cb464d008625bdb323efa /doc/doc-docbook | |
| parent | 96d16729c2267491424478e623a492acaec6b35e (diff) | |
Auths: in plaintext authenticator, fix parsing of consecutive circuflex. Bug 2687
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt index 4c79e87cf..15b03eabb 100644 --- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt +++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt @@ -27824,7 +27824,14 @@ fixed_plain: client_send = ^username^mysecret .endd The lack of colons means that the entire text is sent with the AUTH -command, with the circumflex characters converted to NULs. A similar example +command, with the circumflex characters converted to NULs. +.new +Note that due to the ambiguity of parsing three consectutive circumflex characters +there is no way to provide a password having a leading circumflex. +.wen + + +A similar example that uses the LOGIN mechanism is: .code fixed_login: |