Valid Characters in User-Name & Password

[Alan DeKok]

Ryan De Kock wrote:
> Is there a list of valid characters that can be in the username &
> password feild of the access-request and account-start packets?

  They're supposed to be UTF-8.  In practice, they can be pretty much
anything.

> for example, is a space (" ") valid in the username, #,&,^,etc. Where
> can I find this kind of info?

  RFC 2865 Section 5.1 and 5.2

  Alan DeKok.