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diff --git a/src/src/auths/README b/src/src/auths/README
index 9143b9e91..21b0cda92 100644
--- a/src/src/auths/README
+++ b/src/src/auths/README
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-$Cambridge: exim/src/src/auths/README,v 1.4 2006/02/10 14:25:43 ph10 Exp $
-
 AUTHS
 
 The modules in this directory are in support of various 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
 
@@ -87,7 +85,8 @@ The yield of a client authentication check must be one of:
   FAIL        failed after reading a response;
               either errno is set (for timeouts, I/O failures) or
               the buffer contains the SMTP response line
-  FORCEFAIL   failed without reading a response (often "fail" in expansion)
+  CANCELLED   the client cancelled authentication (often "fail" in expansion)
+              the buffer may contain a message; if not, *buffer = 0
   ERROR       local problem (typically expansion error); message in buffer
 
 To communicate with the remote host the client should call