Hi community,
when creating regular Aras accounts (no LDAP) I noticed that certain characters in passwords don´t work.
The user cannot login if certain characters are used in the password, e.g. " or §. Is there an official list of characters to avoid?
Thanks!
Angela
Hi Angela,
Could you let me know what version you're using? I just tested using double quotes " in a password in release 33, and didn't see an issue. I can confirm that the section character (§) does appear to be invalid, however.
Hi Chris,
thanks for testing! I use Innovator 12SP7, but for this thread I use Release 2023 to make comparisons easier. Behavior is identical.
Your simple mention that " worked in your environment solved the problem. In my case both mentioned characters " or § tricket me.
Root cause of the problem: German keyboard layout.
1. § is a less common char than I thought. It´s not part oft the 128 ASCII table. It´s not even common on keyboards worldwide. I really didn´t know that! [emoticon:33306c418930400bac28808410f8ac8b] Clearly a German thing - even our keyboards have to reflect our love for bureaucracy by providing a dedicated key.[emoticon:d6dd260102fd406884fc96b8bc59760b]
2. " is of course a super common character. But do I really get this char when I use MY keyboard? Well sometimes! For German keyboards it depends on the context. In a programming environment or in this forum I get the straight version ", but in other contexts I get the curly variants „ and “. These two are again not part of the regular ASCII table.
I made a quick test with a few other chars:
Work --> % $ & ? * ( ) + …
Fail --> ö ä ß € SPACE
So I assume we can use all regular ASCII 128 letters (without Spacebar).
So I assume we can use all regular ASCII 128 letters (without Spacebar).
This would be my assumption as well. I will verify once my test environments are set up, and I can look at the actual logic.
Edit: It does appear that space characters are valid from my testing of Release 33.
I want to push this topic to the top of the list again. Does anyone know other restricted characters?
