Authenticators: refactor SASL support code

[exim.git] / src / src / auths / README

diff --git a/src/src/auths/README b/src/src/auths/README
index 780e15dc4bc6e20c9bdd773dff663fc685487781..d4f125c3006cbd5e18f54f6b4c09568371d67395 100644 (file)
--- a/src/src/auths/README
+++ b/src/src/auths/README
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-$Cambridge: exim/src/src/auths/README,v 1.5 2006/02/23 12:41:22 ph10 Exp $
-
 AUTHS
 
 The modules in this directory are in support of various authentication
@@ -23,7 +21,7 @@ The API for each of these functions is documented with the function's code.
 
 INTERFACE TO SMTP AUTHENTICATION MECHANISMS
 
-These are general SSL mechanisms, adapted for use with SMTP. Each
+These are general SASL mechanisms, adapted for use with SMTP. Each
 authentication mechanism has three functions, for initialization, server
 authentication, and client authentication.
 
@@ -59,7 +57,7 @@ The yield of a server authentication check must be one of:
   DEFER       couldn't complete the check
   FAIL        authentication failed
   CANCELLED   authentication forced to fail by "*" response to challenge,
-                or by a forced string expansion failure
+                or by certain forced string expansion failures
   BAD64       bad base64 data received
   UNEXPECTED  unexpected data received
 
@@ -70,7 +68,7 @@ CLIENT AUTHENTICATION
 The third function performs authentication as a client. It receives a pointer
 to the instance block, and four further arguments:
 
-  The smtp_inblock item for the connection to the remote host.
+  The smtp_context item for the connection to the remote host.
 
   The normal command-reading timeout value.