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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 6c4d353b..5f134f75 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -675,13 +675,14 @@ This option permits you to specify an authentication type (see USER AUTHENTICATION below for details). The possible values are \fBany\fR, \&\fBpassword\fR, \fBkerberos_v5\fR, \fBkerberos\fR (or, for excruciating exactness, \fBkerberos_v4\fR), \fBgssapi\fR, -\fBcram-md5\fR, \fBotp\fR, \fBntlm\fR, \fBmsn\fR and \fBssh\fR. When -\fBany\fR (the default) is specified, fetchmail tries first methods that -don't require a password (GSSAPI, KERBEROS\ IV, KERBEROS\ 5); then it -looks for methods that mask your password (CRAM-MD5, X-OTP - note that -NTLM and MSN are not autoprobed); and only if the -server doesn't support any of those will it ship your password en clair. -Other values may be used to force various authentication methods +\fBcram-md5\fR, \fBotp\fR, \fBntlm\fR, \fBmsn\fR (only for POP3) and +\fBssh\fR. When \fBany\fR (the default) is specified, fetchmail tries +first methods that don't require a password (GSSAPI, KERBEROS\ IV, +KERBEROS\ 5); then it looks for methods that mask your password +(CRAM-MD5, X-OTP - note that NTLM and MSN are not autoprobed for POP3 +and MSN is only supported for POP3); and only if the server doesn't +support any of those will it ship your password en clair. Other values +may be used to force various authentication methods (\fBssh\fR suppresses authentication). Any value other than \&\fBpassword\fR, \fBcram-md5\fR, \fBntlm\fR, \fBmsn\fR or \fBotp\fR suppresses fetchmail's normal inquiry for a password. Specify \fBssh\fR @@ -1843,15 +1844,15 @@ Legal protocol identifiers for use with the 'protocol' keyword are: .fi .sp .PP -Legal authentication types are 'any', 'password', 'kerberos', 'kerberos_v5' -and 'gssapi', 'cram-md5', 'otp', 'ntlm', 'ssh'. -The 'password' type specifies authentication by normal transmission of a -password (the password may be plain text or subject to -protocol-specific encryption as in APOP); 'kerberos' 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; and -\&'gssapi' tells fetchmail to use GSSAPI authentication. See the description -of the 'auth' keyword for more. +Legal authentication types are 'any', 'password', 'kerberos', +\&'kerberos_v4', 'kerberos_v5' and 'gssapi', 'cram-md5', 'otp', 'msn' +(only for POP3), 'ntlm', 'ssh'. The 'password' type specifies +authentication by normal transmission of a password (the password may be +plain text or subject to protocol-specific encryption as in APOP); +\&'kerberos' 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; and 'gssapi' tells fetchmail to use GSSAPI authentication. +See the description of the 'auth' keyword for more. .PP Specifying 'kpop' sets POP3 protocol over port 1109 with Kerberos V4 authentication. These defaults may be overridden by later options. |