Re: Application Roles ENCRYPT function Valid Password Characters

From: Sue Hoegemeier (Sue_H_at_nomail.please)
Date: 06/29/05 

Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:54:23 -0600

You can find the valid characters in the books online help
topic: Security Rules.
You can find the topic in the index under passwords, rules
for

-Sue

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:49:06 -0400, "Chuck Hawkins"
<charles.hawkins@NOSPAMjenzabar.net> wrote:

>When I try to use the ODBC canonical ENCRYPT function for SP_SETAPPROLE, I
>get an ODBC error when certain otherwise good characters are used in the
>password. What characters are and are not allowed for passwords for
>application roles while using the ENCRYPT function?
>

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