diff --git a/scripts-dev/check_auth.py b/scripts-dev/check_auth.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a1c5f39d4..0000000000
--- a/scripts-dev/check_auth.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-from __future__ import print_function
-
-import argparse
-import itertools
-import json
-import sys
-
-from mock import Mock
-
-from synapse.api.auth import Auth
-from synapse.events import FrozenEvent
-
-
-def check_auth(auth, auth_chain, events):
- auth_chain.sort(key=lambda e: e.depth)
-
- auth_map = {e.event_id: e for e in auth_chain}
-
- create_events = {}
- for e in auth_chain:
- if e.type == "m.room.create":
- create_events[e.room_id] = e
-
- for e in itertools.chain(auth_chain, events):
- auth_events_list = [auth_map[i] for i, _ in e.auth_events]
-
- auth_events = {(e.type, e.state_key): e for e in auth_events_list}
-
- auth_events[("m.room.create", "")] = create_events[e.room_id]
-
- try:
- auth.check(e, auth_events=auth_events)
- except Exception as ex:
- print("Failed:", e.event_id, e.type, e.state_key)
- print("Auth_events:", auth_events)
- print(ex)
- print(json.dumps(e.get_dict(), sort_keys=True, indent=4))
- # raise
- print("Success:", e.event_id, e.type, e.state_key)
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
- parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
-
- parser.add_argument(
- "json", nargs="?", type=argparse.FileType("r"), default=sys.stdin
- )
-
- args = parser.parse_args()
-
- js = json.load(args.json)
-
- auth = Auth(Mock())
- check_auth(
- auth,
- [FrozenEvent(d) for d in js["auth_chain"]],
- [FrozenEvent(d) for d in js.get("pdus", [])],
- )
diff --git a/scripts-dev/config-lint.sh b/scripts-dev/config-lint.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..677a854c85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts-dev/config-lint.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Find linting errors in Synapse's default config file.
+# Exits with 0 if there are no problems, or another code otherwise.
+
+# Fix non-lowercase true/false values
+sed -i -E "s/: +True/: true/g; s/: +False/: false/g;" docs/sample_config.yaml
+
+# Check if anything changed
+git diff --exit-code docs/sample_config.yaml
diff --git a/scripts-dev/lint.sh b/scripts-dev/lint.sh
index ebb4d69f86..02a2ca39e5 100755
--- a/scripts-dev/lint.sh
+++ b/scripts-dev/lint.sh
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ set -e
isort -y -rc synapse tests scripts-dev scripts
flake8 synapse tests
python3 -m black synapse tests scripts-dev scripts
+./scripts-dev/config-lint.sh
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