SAS/SHARE User's Guide

Username and Password Naming Conventions

Each username and password is limited to 256 characters that follow these conventions:

Mixed case is allowed.
A null value, which is no value, that is delimited with quotation marks is allowed.
Quotation marks must surround values that contain one or more spaces.
Quotation marks must surround values that contain one or more special characters.
Quotation marks must surround values that contain one or more quotation marks.

Examples:

user=joe password=Born2run
user=joe password='' # null space specified by contiguous quotation marks
user='joe black' password='Born 2 run'
user='joe?black' password='Born 2 run'
user='apexdomain\joe' password=born2run # Win NT username
user='"crazy joe"' pw=_prompt_;
user=_prompt_;

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