MBS Does not Support Extended Characters in Passwords

Last reviewed: February 3, 1998
Article ID: Q160881

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Commercial Internet System, version 1.0

SUMMARY

The templates that come with Membership Services support only standard characters for Member passwords. The upper and lowercase letters and the numerals 0 through nine, as well as the hyphen and the underscore, are the allowed characters in those templates.

MORE INFORMATION

SQL Server and the Membership Services can handle all 7-bit based ASCII characters (0-127). The customer can modify the templates to allow for all of the 7- bit ASCII characters.

Additional query words: 1.00
Keywords : kbenv kbprg kbsetup
Version : 1.00
Platform : WINDOWS

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Last reviewed: February 3, 1998
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