SFTP user name and password requirements

There are two types of SFTP users.

Customer contact assigned SFTP user

An SFTP user account assigned to a customer contact. A customer contact can have only one SFTP user account assigned to it.

System SFTP user

An SFTP account not linked to a customer contact.

User name requirements

The user names for all SFTP users must satisfy these requirements:

  • The user name must contain fifty characters or less.
  • The user name can include both letters and numbers.
  • These special characters are allowed: _ (underscore) and - (hyphen).

User name requirements

The passwords for all SFTP users must satisfy these requirements:

  • The password must be at least 8 characters in length.
  • The password must contain characters from three of these four categories:
    • English uppercase characters (A through Z)
    • English lowercase characters (a through z)
    • Numbers (0 through 9)
    • Non-alphanumeric characters such as !, $, #, and %