CANDE supports the security option CASESENSITIVEPW. If this option is set, you can use lowercase and special characters in your passwords without enclosing the password in quotes. This makes it easier to use the same password in both MCP and Windows environments. When the option is set, CANDE does not automatically make passwords uppercase; the passwords are case-sensitive. However, it is still acceptable to enclose a password in quotes.

<special password character>

The special characters that CANDE accepts in an unquoted password when the security option CASESENSITIVEPW is set are as follows:

~  tilde                !  exclamation mark 
(  left parenthesis     )  right parenthesis
|  split bar            \  backslash 
[  left bracket         ]  right bracket
@  at                   _  low line
#  number               +  plus sign 
$  dollar               `  grave accent
:  colon                '  apostrophe
%  percent              -  minus sign (hyphen)
=  equal                *  asterisk    
<  less than            >  greater than
{  left brace           }  right brace 
&  ampersand            ,  comma
^  circumflex (carat)

The set of characters accepted without quotes varies among system interfaces. Of those characters listed above, Unisys recommends that you do not use the percent sign and comma in passwords.