Auths: in plaintext authenticator, fix parsing of consecutive circuflex. Bug 2687

[exim.git] / doc / doc-docbook / spec.xfpt

diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
index 4c79e87cf81aae44eb0bbd798ddd53f058d7ee79..15b03eabbe43909ca04e7feb8dc99b6164ce7b05 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
+++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
@@ -27824,7 +27824,14 @@ fixed_plain:
   client_send = ^username^mysecret
 .endd
 The lack of colons means that the entire text is sent with the AUTH
-command, with the circumflex characters converted to NULs. A similar example
+command, with the circumflex characters converted to NULs.
+.new
+Note that due to the ambiguity of parsing three consectutive circumflex characters
+there is no way to provide a password having a leading circumflex.
+.wen
+
+
+A similar example
 that uses the LOGIN mechanism is:
 .code
 fixed_login: