From: Timo Sirainen Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 03:47:01 +0000 (+0300) Subject: Updated for ANONYMOUS X-Git-Tag: 1.1.alpha1~4666 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=edf1752089570f0b89eb3dd51efeead81bc343b8;p=thirdparty%2Fdovecot%2Fcore.git Updated for ANONYMOUS --HG-- branch : HEAD --- diff --git a/doc/auth.txt b/doc/auth.txt index 02c71ec044..79e02b0eb5 100644 --- a/doc/auth.txt +++ b/doc/auth.txt @@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ Currently supported authentication mechanisms: - DIGEST-MD5: Should be quite secure by itself. It also supports integrity protecting and crypting the rest of the communication, but we don't support those yet. + - ANONYMOUS: No authentication required. User will be logged in as the user + specified by auth_anonymous_username setting (default "anonymous"). There's + no special restrictions given for anonymous users so you have to make sure + it doesn't have access to unwanted locations. Currently supported password databases: @@ -58,6 +62,7 @@ nowadays so it doesn't usually work as password database. BSDs are an exception to this, they still set the password field even with shadow passwords. +As an extension, if home directory ends with "/./", it will be chrooted to. shadow ------