From: Phil Pennock Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:10:54 +0000 (-0700) Subject: fix gsasl / cyrus claims X-Git-Tag: exim-4_80_RC1~72 X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commitdiff_plain/3b4f55a3467f3c0dc52711f14fb3a593daa93f36 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. --- diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index c25e51ba0..b962b61a2 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -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