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Commit: bfb0c353c7d93658893009a58bdd8d24b34ef012
Parent: 1639c98f27941500daba8e74f5efb331a35f69e2
Author: Jeremy Harris <jgh146exb@???>
AuthorDate: Sun Jan 26 20:54:07 2020 +0000
Committer: Jeremy Harris <jgh146exb@???>
CommitDate: Sun Jan 26 20:54:07 2020 +0000
Docs: tidy authentication indexing
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doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt | 11 ++++-------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
index c4e9ce2..25f9753 100644
--- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
+++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
@@ -27040,7 +27040,7 @@ There are good and bad examples at the end of the next section.
.section "The PLAIN authentication mechanism" "SECID172"
.cindex "PLAIN authentication mechanism"
-.cindex "authentication" "PLAIN mechanism"
+.cindex authentication PLAIN
.cindex "binary zero" "in &(plaintext)& authenticator"
The PLAIN authentication mechanism (RFC 2595) specifies that three strings be
sent as one item of data (that is, one combined string containing two NUL
@@ -27122,7 +27122,7 @@ writing the test makes the logic clearer.
.section "The LOGIN authentication mechanism" "SECID173"
.cindex "LOGIN authentication mechanism"
-.cindex "authentication" "LOGIN mechanism"
+.cindex authentication LOGIN
The LOGIN authentication mechanism is not documented in any RFC, but is in use
in a number of programs. No data is sent with the AUTH command. Instead, a
user name and password are supplied separately, in response to prompts. The
@@ -27243,7 +27243,7 @@ prompts.
.scindex IIDcramauth1 "&(cram_md5)& authenticator"
.scindex IIDcramauth2 "authenticators" "&(cram_md5)&"
.cindex "CRAM-MD5 authentication mechanism"
-.cindex "authentication" "CRAM-MD5 mechanism"
+.cindex authentication CRAM-MD5
The CRAM-MD5 authentication mechanism is described in RFC 2195. The server
sends a challenge string to the client, and the response consists of a user
name and the CRAM-MD5 digest of the challenge string combined with a secret
@@ -27532,10 +27532,7 @@ auth_mechanisms = plain login ntlm
.cindex "authentication" "LOGIN"
.cindex "authentication" "DIGEST-MD5"
.cindex "authentication" "CRAM-MD5"
-.cindex "authentication" "SCRAM-SHA-1"
-.cindex "authentication" "SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS"
-.cindex "authentication" "SCRAM-SHA-256"
-.cindex "authentication" "SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS"
+.cindex "authentication" "SCRAM family"
The &(gsasl)& authenticator provides integration for the GNU SASL
library and the mechanisms it provides. This is new as of the 4.80 release
and there are a few areas where the library does not let Exim smoothly
