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| author | Jeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org> | 2020-01-26 20:54:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Jeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org> | 2020-01-26 20:54:07 +0000 |
| commit | bfb0c353c7d93658893009a58bdd8d24b34ef012 (patch) | |
| tree | 2e9d9856501b44fca958eba3371c43a11996ab20 /doc | |
| parent | 1639c98f27941500daba8e74f5efb331a35f69e2 (diff) | |
Docs: tidy authentication indexing
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt | 11 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt index c4e9ce284..25f97535a 100644 --- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt +++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt @@ -27040,7 +27040,7 @@ There are good and bad examples at the end of the next section. .section "The PLAIN authentication mechanism" "SECID172" .cindex "PLAIN authentication mechanism" -.cindex "authentication" "PLAIN mechanism" +.cindex authentication PLAIN .cindex "binary zero" "in &(plaintext)& authenticator" The PLAIN authentication mechanism (RFC 2595) specifies that three strings be sent as one item of data (that is, one combined string containing two NUL @@ -27122,7 +27122,7 @@ writing the test makes the logic clearer. .section "The LOGIN authentication mechanism" "SECID173" .cindex "LOGIN authentication mechanism" -.cindex "authentication" "LOGIN mechanism" +.cindex authentication LOGIN The LOGIN authentication mechanism is not documented in any RFC, but is in use in a number of programs. No data is sent with the AUTH command. Instead, a user name and password are supplied separately, in response to prompts. The @@ -27243,7 +27243,7 @@ prompts. .scindex IIDcramauth1 "&(cram_md5)& authenticator" .scindex IIDcramauth2 "authenticators" "&(cram_md5)&" .cindex "CRAM-MD5 authentication mechanism" -.cindex "authentication" "CRAM-MD5 mechanism" +.cindex authentication CRAM-MD5 The CRAM-MD5 authentication mechanism is described in RFC 2195. The server sends a challenge string to the client, and the response consists of a user name and the CRAM-MD5 digest of the challenge string combined with a secret @@ -27532,10 +27532,7 @@ auth_mechanisms = plain login ntlm .cindex "authentication" "LOGIN" .cindex "authentication" "DIGEST-MD5" .cindex "authentication" "CRAM-MD5" -.cindex "authentication" "SCRAM-SHA-1" -.cindex "authentication" "SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS" -.cindex "authentication" "SCRAM-SHA-256" -.cindex "authentication" "SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS" +.cindex "authentication" "SCRAM family" The &(gsasl)& authenticator provides integration for the GNU SASL library and the mechanisms it provides. This is new as of the 4.80 release and there are a few areas where the library does not let Exim smoothly |