OF-3135: Improve wording of TLS Auth setting #3048
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In server-to-server configuration on the admin console, there’s a checkbox that controls if any other authentication mechanism can be used, if SASL EXTERNAL was attempted, but failed. The rationale being that if a strong mechanism fails, using a weaker mechanism can lead to exploitable security loopholes. The current text for this option is: > If attempting to validate a cerificate fails, the connection is closed and not attempted via dialback authentication This is confusing. Improve it, for example by using: > Treat invalid TLS certificates as fatal (do not attempt other, possibly weaker, forms methods of authentication)
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In server-to-server configuration on the admin console, there’s a checkbox that controls if any other authentication mechanism can be used, if SASL EXTERNAL was attempted, but failed.
The rationale being that if a strong mechanism fails, using a weaker mechanism can lead to exploitable security loopholes.
The current text for this option is:
This is confusing. Improve it, for example by using: