Allowable characters for user ID and password
Install HCL Connections™ allows the setting of rules and limitations on the allowable characters for its user ID and password.
Understanding character limitations for user ID and passwords is important because they are used throughout the system to provide access and secure content. The character limitations provided here apply to the HCL Connections administrator, IBM WebSphere Application Server administrator, database administrator, and LDAP server administrator. Failure to correctly define usernames and passwords during the installation process can result in installation failure.
When a person signs up as a user or when an administrator enrolls a user, they must complete the user information form. On this form, do not enter characters that might not be supported. Regardless of what characters you are able to enter on the user information form, username and passwords are limited to the valid characters described here. You can specify other characters in the given name and surname fields. If your company policy is more restrictive, you can provide that information to your users in the enrollment form help or as inline help directly on the form.
Under normal circumstances a valid name and password can contain the following characters:
User Information | Valid Characters | Unsupported Characters |
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Username |
Note: Commercial at {@}, this character is not supported when you
create the HCL Portal and WebSphere® Application Server administrator during
installation.
Note: The only supported characters in IBM® i are lowercase characters,
uppercase characters, numbers, and the underscore.
|
|
Password/confirm password |
Note: Commercial at {@}, this character is not supported when you
create the HCL Portal and WebSphere® Application Server administrator during
installation.
Note: The only supported characters in IBM® i are lowercase characters,
uppercase characters, numbers, and the underscore.
|
|
Given name | All characters | none |
Surname | All characters | none |