Special characters

You must not use a few characters for the password because the operating shell might interpret these characters.

Avoid usage of the following characters special characters:

	`
	'
	\
	"
	|

For example, by using the 6.0 and later versions of Web Administration Tool to assign a user password attribute to the value "\"test\' requires the following password from the command line.

-w\"\\\"test\'

Here is an example search.

idsldapsearch -b" " -sbase-Dcn=newEntry,o=sample-w\"\\\"test\' objectclass=*

Note: This password works in the Web Administration Tool application by using the original password without the escape character. In the previous example, the Web Administration Tool bind password is the same as the one that was entered when you assign the password in the Web Administration Tool:

	"\"test\'