On 27 May 2002, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> Has anyone got a working plain authentication going with a simple
> htpasswd generated type file (username:encrypted-passwd)?
>
> {${extract{1}{:}{${lookup{$2}lsearch{/etc/exim/auth-users}{$value}}}}\
this is totally bogus. i'd be suprised if you found this in the exim
book, for `username:password'-style files. if you did, however, that
needs immediate correction. you just misunderstood something, though,
i'm quite confident on this.
the bogus part more exactly is this:
extract{1}{:}{lookup{$2}lsearch{/etc/exim/auth-users}
explanation:
in $2 there's the username
lookup{username}lsearch{passwdfile} returns you the password (encrypted or
not, this is not the point - it returns the PASSWORD, and solely the
password).
see now ? if not, feel free to say so, but please think about it
first.
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