Characters Supported in Siebel Passwords

It is recommended that you implement a password policy in your organization that defines the requirements for creating and changing Siebel passwords. For example:

• The password value must not be the same as the user name.

• Password values must be a minimum length, usually 8 characters (maximum length is 18 characters).

• Password values must include a variety of supported characters.

Supported Characters

Siebel CRM supports the use of the following characters in passwords:

• The alphabetic characters a to z (uppercase and lowercase).

• The numerals 0 to 9.

• The following special characters: Number sign (#).

Unsupported Characters

You cannot use the special characters shown in the following table when creating or changing passwords used in your Siebel implementation.

Note: The LDAP security adapter used with Siebel Business Applications allows special characters in passwords, including characters not supported in Siebel passwords.

Character	Description	Hexadecimal
!	Exclamation point	21
"	Double quote	22
$	Dollar sign	24
%	Percent sign	25
&	Ampersand	26
'	Single quote	27
(	Open parenthesis	28
)	Close parenthesis	29
*	Asterisk (star)	2A
+	Plus	2B
,	Comma	2C
-	Minus (hyphen)	2D
.	Period	2E
/	Forward slash	2F
:	Colon	3A
;	Semi-colon	3B
<	Less-than sign	3C
=	Equal sign	3D
>	Greater-than sign	3E
?	Question mark	3F
@	At-sign	40
[	Open bracket	5B
\	Back slash	5C
]	Close bracket	5D
^	Caret	5E
_	Underscore	5F
`	Grave accent	60
{	Open brace	7B
|	Vertical bar	7C
}	Close brace	7D
~	Tilde	7E
´	Acute accent	B4