Documentation/Tests for CVE-2014-2972 fix

[exim.git] / test / README

diff --git a/test/README b/test/README
index c64b02206ea1137229c0e9ce73079977a4d79972..d4ef72d5e87da4656c2b524fa7ec5bbd89363223 100644 (file)
--- a/test/README
+++ b/test/README
@@ -91,9 +91,10 @@ In order to run this test suite, the following requirements must be met:
 (5) Exim must be built with its user and group specified at build time, and
     with certain minimum facilities, namely:
 
-      Routers:    accept, dnslookup, manualroute, redirect
-      Transports: appendfile, autoreply, pipe, smtp
-      Lookups:    lsearch
+      Routers:        accept, dnslookup, manualroute, redirect
+      Transports:     appendfile, autoreply, pipe, smtp
+      Lookups:        lsearch
+      Authenticators: plaintext
 
     Most Exim binaries will have these included.
 
@@ -457,6 +458,9 @@ OTHER ISSUES
   be on by default and you'll see this problem, so make sure your umask is
   022 and re-checkout the test/ subdirectory.
 
+. Some tests will fail if the username and group name are different. It does
+  not have to be the primary group, a secondary group is sufficient.
+
 
 OTHER SCRIPTS AND PROGRAMS
 --------------------------
@@ -673,7 +677,7 @@ only when DBM support is available in Exim, and typically follows the use of a
 "write" command (see below) that creates the input file.
 
 
-  dumpdb <dbname>
+  dump <dbname>
 
 This command runs the exim_dumpdb utility on the testing spool directory, using
 the database name given, for example: "dumpdb retry".
@@ -727,7 +731,7 @@ to the screen.
   munge <name>
 
 This command requests custom munging of the test outputs.  The munge names
-used are coded in the runtest script.
+used are coded in the runtest script (look for 'name of munge').
 
 
   need_ipv4