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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1997-05-13 06:43:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1997-05-13 06:43:41 +0000 |
| commit | b11b996ab664a8f09b63c1352400ba227cb93253 (patch) | |
| tree | 4ff2f66f7eaff101c1cb765f6c136d6cb611d6a5 /fetchmail.man | |
| parent | 549a2fc90d70139de5eac97d3e5bf201c17a647d (diff) | |
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Caseblind comparison of names, more explicitness about Kerberos.
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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 8fed9e09..ae5cc972 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Use POP3 with MD5 authentication. .IP RPOP Use POP3 with RPOP authentication. .IP KPOP -Use POP3 with Kerberos authentication on port 1109. +Use POP3 with Kerberos V4 authentication on port 1109. .IP IMAP IMAP2bis, IMAP4, or IMAP4rev1 (\fIfetchmail\fR autodetects their capabilities). .IP ETRN @@ -258,11 +258,12 @@ no other activity has occurred on the link, then the poll will be skipped. This option is currently only supported under Linux. .TP .B \-A, --auth -This option permits you to specify an authentication type (see USER +This option permits you to specify a preauthentication type (see USER AUTHENTICATION below for details). The possible values are -\&`\fBpassword\fR' and `\fBkerberos\fR'. This option is provided +\&`\fBpassword\fR' and `\fBkerberos\fR' (or, for excruciating +exactness, `\fBkerberos_v4\fR'). This option is provided primarily for developers; choosing KPOP protocol automatically selects -Kerberos authentication, and all other alternatives use ordinary +Kerberos preauthentication, and all other alternatives use ordinary password authentication (though APOP uses a generated one-time key as the password). This option does not work with ETRN. @@ -385,8 +386,8 @@ the server greeting time to the server, which can verify it by checking its authorization database. .PP If your \fIfetchmail\fR was built with Kerberos support and you specify -Kerberos authentication (either with --auth or the \fI.fetchmailrc\fR -option \fBauthenticate kerberos\fR) it will try to get a Kerberos +Kerberos preauthentication (either with --auth or the \fI.fetchmailrc\fR +option \fBauthenticate kerberos_v4\fR) it will try to get a Kerberos ticket from the mailserver at the start of each query. .SH DAEMON MODE @@ -730,7 +731,7 @@ as in APOP); the second tells \fIfetchmail\fR to try to get a Kerberos ticket at the start of each query instead, and send an arbitrary string as the password. .PP -Specifying `kpop' sets POP3 protocol over port 1109 with Kerberos +Specifying `kpop' sets POP3 protocol over port 1109 with Kerberos V4 authentication. These defaults may be overridden by later options. .PP You can use the noise keywords `and', `with', |