Characters in password

[Søren Povelsen]

Hi.

I am trying to find out what characters are valid in passwords for Jira Built-in accounts.

I have tried a few times with a password generator, where it seems that some special characters are not valid.

Cheers,

Søren

[Radek Dostál]

If you are a system administrator then you can check the Password Policy page whether your internal account passwords must follow some specific format:

{code}

{{ baseUrl }}/secure/admin/EditPasswordPolicy!default.jspa

{code}

Next you can compare it with Atlassian documentation:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/manage-password-security-938847028.html

Internal account passwords are stored in the db in a hashed format, so I doubt that would be an issue, but in any case there used to be a few bugs with special characters but majority if not all have been resolved.

Still though I'd try checking the password security setting first to be sure - I'd bet that's the reason there.

All in all I don't think you should have any issues with "common" special characters, unless you're generating some runestick symbols.