Issue/Introduction:
What characters are allowed in the Oracle Protect password?
Resolution:
Guidelines for an acceptable Oracle user account password:
- Passwords can not contain quotation marks.
- Passwords are case sensitive.
- A password must begin with an alphabetic character.
- Passwords can contain only alphanumeric characters and the underscore (_), dollar sign ($), and pound sign (#).
- Password may NOT contain the "@" character.
- However, Oracle strongly discourages you from using $ and #.