[exim-cvs] fix gsasl / cyrus claims

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Subject: [exim-cvs] fix gsasl / cyrus claims
Gitweb: http://git.exim.org/exim.git/commitdiff/3b4f55a3467f3c0dc52711f14fb3a593daa93f36
Commit:     3b4f55a3467f3c0dc52711f14fb3a593daa93f36
Parent:     c1e49b796a61a19bc61e8c6349e90614690189a0
Author:     Phil Pennock <pdp@???>
AuthorDate: Sat Mar 31 03:10:54 2012 -0700
Committer:  Phil Pennock <pdp@???>
CommitDate: Sat Mar 31 03:10:54 2012 -0700


    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.
---
 doc/doc-txt/NewStuff |    8 +++-----
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)


diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff
index c25e51b..b962b61 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