David et al,

What special chars are allowed to be used in the passwords. I'm not sure if
it applies to all but I seem to have some problems with some of these;
!...@#$%^&*()_+?

Thanks as always for the help.



David E Jones-3 wrote:
> 
> 
> On Jan 16, 2009, at 1:20 AM, kunal aggarwal wrote:
> 
>> Hello BJ,
>>
>> I think that xml file contains password in excrypted form. How can one
>> change that file in that case.
>>
>> One has to put the encrypted password only in that xml file. i think  
>> it
>> seems impossible to to put encrypted password in xml file?
> 
> And yet amazingly there is an encrypted password string in the XML  
> file...
> 
> The easiest is to load the seed, seed-initial, and whatever other  
> initial data you need/want and then to change the admin and related  
> passwords through the Party Manager, and then you're set to go. The  
> passwords are part of the seed-initial data, and that should never be  
> loaded again (though if you suspect anything has changed there, then  
> you can do a data set diff in webtools to see what is different  
> between the database and the data files and selectively make updates).
> 
> On a side note, you really should disable the admin account and not  
> just change the password. All users, even admin users, should have  
> their own individual named accounts. It's a good security practice,  
> and mandate for things like PCI compliance.
> 
> -David
> 
> 
> 

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