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Characters in Names and Passwords

Partition names

Minimum length: 1 character

Maximum length: 63 characters

Passwords

Minimum length: usually 7 characters

Maximum length: 63 characters

Partition names and Passwords

Allowed characters: !#$%'()*+,-./ 0123456789:=?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[]^_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{}~

Note that 87 characters are shown above. The list includes the SPACE character. These 87 characters are the 95 normal (non-control) ASCII characters minus the 8 special characters " | & \ ; ` < >.

Do not use:

Character    Hex Value
|             0x7C
&             0x26
\             0x5C
;             0x3B
`             0x60
<             0x3C
>             0x3E

Client names

Minimum length: 1 character

Maximum length: 64 characters

Allowed characters:  0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY Z_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Note that 63 characters are shown above. This includes the underscore character _, as well as a-z. A-Z and 0-9.