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Issue<\/strong><\/p>\n

When trying to add a user you get the following error message,<\/p>\n

User name or password has an invalid format<\/p>\n

Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n

This can be down to either<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Your password is not eight characters in length.<\/li>\n
  2. Your password or username entered contained characters outside of the character types allowed. These are :<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    – Alphanumeric Characters \u2014 Numbers, uppercase alphabetic characters, and lowercase alphabetic characters.
    \n– Special Characters \u2014 You can use any of these characters ~!@#$%^&*()_+{}|:”<>?\/.,’;\\][=-`)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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