From 3769a0e9294e529ae058edcd65159394b386af75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leif Madsen <leif@leifmadsen.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:33:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add note about how Authenticate() application with option 'd'
 works.

(closes issue ASTERISK-17422)
Reported by: Leif Madsen
........

Merged revisions 343102 from http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/branches/1.8


git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/10@343103 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3
---
 apps/app_authenticate.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/apps/app_authenticate.c b/apps/app_authenticate.c
index 8b5fa11a62..540e3df1cd 100644
--- a/apps/app_authenticate.c
+++ b/apps/app_authenticate.c
@@ -73,7 +73,13 @@ static const char app[] = "Authenticate";
 						<para>Set the channels' account code to the password that is entered</para>
 					</option>
 					<option name="d">
-						<para>Interpret the given path as database key, not a literal file</para>
+						<para>Interpret the given path as database key, not a literal file.</para>
+						<note>
+							<para>The value is not used at all in the authentication when using this option.
+							If the family/key is set to <literal>/pin/100</literal> (value does not matter)
+							then the password field needs to be set to <literal>/pin</literal> and the pin entered
+							by the user would be authenticated against <literal>100</literal>.</para>
+						</note>
 					</option>
 					<option name="m">
 						<para>Interpret the given path as a file which contains a list of account
-- 
2.47.2