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authorPhil Pennock <pdp@exim.org>2012-03-31 03:10:54 -0700
committerPhil Pennock <pdp@exim.org>2012-03-31 03:10:54 -0700
commit3b4f55a3467f3c0dc52711f14fb3a593daa93f36 (patch)
treebc7e0330f7802af10e5512758bb031d40ba098aa /doc/doc-txt
parentc1e49b796a61a19bc61e8c6349e90614690189a0 (diff)
fix gsasl / cyrus claims
Point 1 for 4.78 said gsasl could *not* be used to replace cyrus. This was obsoleted by point 5. Remove claim from point 1, add additional note to point 5.
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@@ -13,10 +13,7 @@ Version 4.78
This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
- careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim. Note that
- this can not yet be used as a drop-in replacement for Cyrus SASL, as
- Exim is currently unable to construct strings with embedded NULs for
- use as keys in lookups against sasldb2.
+ careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
@@ -33,7 +30,8 @@ Version 4.78
5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
- into the DBM library.
+ into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
+ used by Cyrus SASL.
Version 4.77