Unless otherwise specified later in this note, you can use only the following characters for user IDs and passwords in SAS 9.1.3 for the Windows, UNIX, and z/OS environments:

• uppercase letters (A through Z)
• lowercase letters (a through z)
• numbers (0 through 9)
• special characters, such as the exclamation mark (!), number sign (#), percent sign (%), ampersand (&), apostrophe ('), asterisk (*), hyphen (-), full stop (.), slash (/), colon (:), equals sign (=), question mark (?), circumflex accent (^), underscore (_), the left ({) and right curly bracket (}), the vertical line (|) and the tilde (~).

You cannot use Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) special characters that are defined in RFC 2253. This list of special characters includes a leading space, a trailing space, and any of the following characters:

• comma (,)
• plus sign (+)
• double quotation mark (")
• backslash (\)
• left angle bracket (<)
• right angle bracket (>)
• semicolon (;)

To prevent cross-platform interoperability problems, you also cannot use the following characters:

• open parenthesis [(]
• close parenthesis [)]
• dollar sign ($)

Beginning with SAS^® 9.2, for the Windows environment only, you can use letter characters as defined by the Unicode Standard 3.2. The Unicode definition includes uppercase and lowercase letters from A through Z as well as letter characters from other languages. In a broad sense, a letter is an element of an alphabet or syllabary or an ideograph. This means that a letter character can be an alphabetic character such as German ä, French ç, Polish ł, Russian б, Turkish İ, or Hebrew ג. A letter character can also be a katakana (syllabary) or kanji (ideograph) character.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	Base SAS	Windows Vista	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows NT Workstation	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft® Windows® for x64	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Server	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		z/OS	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		64-bit Enabled AIX	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		HP-UX IPF	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Linux	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Linux on Itanium	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		OpenVMS Alpha	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Tru64 UNIX	9.1 TS1M3 SP4

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.

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Non-ASCII characters are not allowed for user IDs and passwords.

Type:	Usage Note
Priority:
Topic:	Third Party ==> Products ==> LDAP System Administration ==> Installation ==> NLS (National Language Support) System Administration ==> Security ==> Authentication

Date Modified:	2008-10-29 10:10:32
Date Created:	2008-10-28 08:44:37