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diff --git a/src/src/auths/README b/src/src/auths/README
index 780e15dc4..66bdcdcf8 100644
--- a/src/src/auths/README
+++ b/src/src/auths/README
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-$Cambridge: exim/src/src/auths/README,v 1.5 2006/02/23 12:41:22 ph10 Exp $
-
 AUTHS
 
 The modules in this directory are in support of various authentication
@@ -23,7 +21,7 @@ The API for each of these functions is documented with the function's code.
 
 INTERFACE TO SMTP AUTHENTICATION MECHANISMS
 
-These are general SSL mechanisms, adapted for use with SMTP. Each
+These are general SASL mechanisms, adapted for use with SMTP. Each
 authentication mechanism has three functions, for initialization, server
 authentication, and client authentication.
 
@@ -36,7 +34,7 @@ instance block for this configured mechanism. It must set the flags called
 the server and/or client functions are available for this authenticator.
 Typically this depends on whether server or client configuration options have
 been set, but it is also possible to have an authenticator that has only one of
-the server or client functions.
+the server or client functions.  The function may not touch big_buffer.
 
 SERVER AUTHENTICATION
 
@@ -59,7 +57,7 @@ The yield of a server authentication check must be one of:
   DEFER       couldn't complete the check
   FAIL        authentication failed
   CANCELLED   authentication forced to fail by "*" response to challenge,
-                or by a forced string expansion failure
+                or by certain forced string expansion failures
   BAD64       bad base64 data received
   UNEXPECTED  unexpected data received
 
@@ -70,7 +68,7 @@ CLIENT AUTHENTICATION
 The third function performs authentication as a client. It receives a pointer
 to the instance block, and four further arguments:
 
-  The smtp_inblock item for the connection to the remote host.
+  The smtp_context item for the connection to the remote host.
 
   The normal command-reading timeout value.