Bug#406686: closed by Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> (Re: Bug#406686: exim4: Client Auth Can't Handle Special Characters in Passwords)

Steaphan Greene stea at cs.binghamton.edu
Sat Jan 13 14:50:55 CET 2007


On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 03:18:22AM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Both ^ and $ work without anyproblems for AUTH CRAM-MD5. $ works fine
> too with AUTH LOGIN and AUTH PLAIN.
> 
> AUTH LOGIN and PLAIN will indeed fail with ^ since exim converts it to
> a binary zero. Doubling the ^ in /etc/exim4/passwd.client will disable
> this.
> 
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.66/doc/html/spec_html/ch34.html

Confirmed.  Thank you.  Can this be added to the man page for this 
config file (exim4_files).  I did look around quite a bit for the cause 
of this problem and was not able to find documentation on it.  I'm sure 
I won't be the only one confused by this.

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Steaphan Greene <sgreene at cs.binghamton.edu>
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