telepathy-spec: X-TELEPATHY-PASSWORD is not mandatory if unimplementable

[Simon McVittie]

Module: telepathy-spec
Branch: master
Commit: 5268e71e5c749f847b6ba33cc396ebfb0e83cb8e
URL:    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/telepathy/telepathy-spec/commit/?id=5268e71e5c749f847b6ba33cc396ebfb0e83cb8e

Author: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk>
Date:   Tue Jan  7 14:29:01 2014 +0000

X-TELEPATHY-PASSWORD is not mandatory if unimplementable

Gabble (correctly) doesn't implement it if you use
{ "account": "gmail.com" }, which is not enough for X-TELEPATHY-PASSWORD:
a mechanism that provides a username, such as PLAIN or Google's OAuth
dialect, must be used here.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64354
Reviewed-by: Guillaume Desmottes <guillaume.desmottes at collabora.co.uk>

---

 spec/Channel_Interface_SASL_Authentication.xml |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spec/Channel_Interface_SASL_Authentication.xml b/spec/Channel_Interface_SASL_Authentication.xml
index 7985a6b..6be975f 100644
--- a/spec/Channel_Interface_SASL_Authentication.xml
+++ b/spec/Channel_Interface_SASL_Authentication.xml
@@ -125,8 +125,10 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</
         <p>To make it possible to implement a very simple password-querying
           user interface without knowledge of any particular SASL mechanism,
           implementations of this interface MUST implement the
-          pseudo-mechanism <code>X-TELEPATHY-PASSWORD</code>, unless none
-          of the available mechanisms use a password at all.</p>
+          pseudo-mechanism <code>X-TELEPATHY-PASSWORD</code>, unless each
+          of the available mechanisms either requires additional information
+          beyond the password (such as a username), or does not use a
+          password.</p>
       </tp:docstring>
     </property>