Legal Characters

• Text that you create as arguments to commands can consist of letters, numbers, hyphens, and the underscore character, but they must begin with a letter.
• Names that you create as arguments to commands can consist of letters, numbers, hyphens, and the underscore character, but they must begin with a letter.
• Domain names and file URLs can contain periods, and URLs can contain a colon, forward slashes, and the @ character.
• Passwords can contain all printable characters. If a password contains a space ( ), backslash (\), or exclamation mark (!), then you must quote the entire password (either single (‘) or double (“) quotes can be used). Note that a quoted password can not use the same quote symbol as part of the password. E.g., “test 99” could not use the double (“) quote symbol as part of the actual password.

The exclamation mark (!) indicates comment text. The CNA software will ignore it and all text that follows until the end of the line. To use an exclamation mark in user-defined text (include description and remark blocks, user IDs and passwords), enclose the text block in double quote marks.

The CNA operating system will convert all alphabetical characters to lower case when interpreting keyword entries (but not when reading user-defined text, such as aliases and group names, which are case sensitive).

For more information about entering text, see Character Set in Chapter 2: Configuration Fundamentals in the CNA Fundamentals Guide.