Character Restrictions for Passwords and Instance Names

When creating passwords and various name fields, all 7-bit ASCII printable characters are permitted, with the following exceptions.

Passwords and Passphrases

Whitespace or control characters are not allowed.

XML import (via CLI or Web API) requires the following characters to be encoded to avoid conflicts with XML parsing:

C	Encoded
<	&lt;
>	&gt;
&	&amp;
'	&apos;
"	&quot;

Instance names

For instance names such as credential names and user names, whitespace or control characters are not allowed. In addition, the following characters cannot be used:

< > & ' "