Non alpha-numeric characters for Passwords

[Ned Flanders]

I can ;-)

In a nutshell, yes they *can* support any character, but they _must_ be
coded that way. IIRC the "standard" password API methods allow pretty much
anything but be careful if you're scripting things. For instance if you're
trying to set a password to m!m/ble&H then when you pass that string through
something like NET.EXE it may (actually will) think the / is for a
commandline switch, not part of the password. CMD.EXE will get messed up by
the & symbol too since it's used for command concatenation under NT-ish
OSes. Standard punctuation is supported in pretty well everything I've
seen, but be careful with "reserved" things like "/", "&", "\", ">",
etc.etc.

"S. Pidgorny [MVP]" <slav...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:#MYBy0saCHA.1888@tkmsftngp12...
> Who can answer for all Windows applications?
>
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> Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP, MCSE
> -= F1 is the key =-
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> "Divya" <mid...@vsnl.com> wrote in message
> news:3bd901c26a9a$086e0110$2ae2...@phx.gbl...
> > Will Microsoft Windows applications support and permit the
> > usage of non alpha-numeric characters (e.g. !@#$%^&*), for
> > PASSWORDS, in all of their applications ?
>
>