Special characters in user IDs and passwords

 

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Generally, a valid user ID may contain only the characters a-z, A-Z, DBCS, period (.), and underscore ( _ ). Diacritics, such as the umlauts, are not supported. Valid passwords may contain only the characters a-z, A-Z, period (.), and underscore ( _ ). Diacritics, such as the umlauts, and DBCS are not supported.

When a user signs up as a portal user or when a portal administrator enrolls a user, they complete the user information form. On this form, do not enter characters that may not be supported. Regardless of what characters you are able to enter on the user information form, user IDs and passwords are limited to the valid characters described in this section. You can specify other characters in the First Name and Last Name fields. The table below contains a list of the required fields on the user information form and the supported characters.

User information form fields Valid characters Characters not supported
User ID The characters a-z, A-Z, DBCS, period (.), and underscore ( _ )
Diacritics, such as the umlaut
Password / Confirm password The characters a-z, A-Z, period (.), and underscore ( _ )
Note: Login will fail if the password contains any special characters, including DBCS characters. This will happen even if a user is successfully enrolled using a password containing DBCS characters. 		Diacritics, such as the umlaut, and DBCS characters
First Name All characters n/a
Last Name All characters n/a

Follow these steps to modify the default validation settings:

  1. If you are running WebSphere Portal, apply PQ84635.

  2. Open <wp_root>/shared/app/config/puma.properties and make the following changes:

    • Add supported userid character values to the puma.UID.extra_chars key.

    • Add supported password character values to the puma.PASSWORD.extra_chars key.

    • Add supported, special character values to the puma.group.extra key.

    • Add special short group ID attributes to the puma.group.cn key.

    • Change the maximum character length of the group name on the puma.group.cn.max key.

    • Change the minimum character length of the group name on the puma.group.cn.min key.

  3. Save the changes.

  4. Restart WebSphere Portal.

 

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