Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance S360 User Guide
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Cisco IronPort AsyncOS 7.7 for Web User Guide
Chapter 20 Authentication
Supported Authentication Characters
Note
The Web Security appliance supports the percent ( % ) character for end users browsing the web.
However, you cannot use a user name with the percent ( %) character to join the Active Directory domain
when you create an NTLM authentication realm.
However, you cannot use a user name with the percent ( %) character to join the Active Directory domain
when you create an NTLM authentication realm.
lists the characters the Web Security appliance supports for the Password field for Active
Directory servers.
lists the characters the Web Security appliance supports for the Location field for Active
Directory servers. You enter the location string in the Location field when you configure an NTLM
authentication realm.
authentication realm.
lists the characters the Web Security appliance supports for the Group field for Active
Directory servers.
Note
You can only use the backslash ( \ ) character as a separator between the domain name and a user or group
name, or as a separator between organizational units (OU) in the location string for an Active Directory
server. You cannot use it as part of a domain name, user name, group name, or location name.
name, or as a separator between organizational units (OU) in the location string for an Active Directory
server. You cannot use it as part of a domain name, user name, group name, or location name.
Table 20-16
Supported Active Directory Server Characters — Password Field
Supported Characters
Characters Not Supported
A...Z a...z
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
` ~ ! # $ ^ & ( ) _ - { } ' . / [ ] : | * ? @ + \ , ; " = < >
space
N/A
Table 20-17
Supported Active Directory Server Characters — Location Field
Supported Characters
Characters Not Supported
A...Z a...z
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
` ~ ! # $ ^ & ( ) _ - { } ' . / [ ] : | * ? @
space
+ \ , ; " = < >
Note
The appliance does not support these
characters even when they are escaped
with a backslash ( \ ) character.
characters even when they are escaped
with a backslash ( \ ) character.
Table 20-18
Supported Active Directory Server Characters — Group Field
Supported Characters
Characters Not Supported
A...Z a...z
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
` ~ ! # $ % ^ & ( ) _ - { } ' . @
space
/ \ [ ] : ; | = , + * ? < > "