[dovecot-cvs] dovecot/doc auth.txt,1.10,1.11

cras at procontrol.fi cras at procontrol.fi
Tue Nov 11 11:59:29 EET 2003


Update of /home/cvs/dovecot/doc
In directory danu:/tmp/cvs-serv28039/doc

Modified Files:
	auth.txt 
Log Message:
cram-md5 updates.



Index: auth.txt
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RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/doc/auth.txt,v
retrieving revision 1.10
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -d -r1.10 -r1.11
--- auth.txt	25 Jun 2003 23:15:35 -0000	1.10
+++ auth.txt	11 Nov 2003 09:59:27 -0000	1.11
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
  - DIGEST-MD5: Should be quite secure by itself. It also supports
    integrity protecting and crypting the rest of the communication, but
    we don't support those yet.
+ - CRAM-MD5: Protects the secret in transit from eavesdroppers.  Doesn't
+   provide any integrity guarantees.
  - ANONYMOUS: No authentication required. User will be logged in as the user
    specified by auth_anonymous_username setting (default "anonymous"). There's
    no special restrictions given for anonymous users so you have to make sure
@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@
 
  - PLAIN: Although not that good idea, it enables support for all current
    and future authentication mechanisms.
+ - HMAC-MD5: HMAC-MD5 context of password, for the CRAM-MD5 mechanism.
  - DIGEST-MD5: MD5 sum of "user:realm:password", as required by DIGEST-MD5
    mechanism.
 



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