Usernames – Guidelines and Restrictions

Read HostedFTP’s guideline and restrictions for creating usernames. Our practices are designed to effectively collaborate with FTP clients and platforms. Complying with our guidelines and restrictions will result in the most efficient way to use our services with your use case.

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Username characters rules

The following characters are NOT allowed when creating a username

No @
No forward slashes /
No backward slashes \
No white-space characters

Examples of Username Restrictions

allen@1234
bikeroute/hills
proposal\hospital
medical building five

Examples with special characters allowed

allen#$%^1234
bike^*()route
proposal<?>:”{}[]
med?$#%five

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The multi-tenant service user namespace is shared amongst all accounts. Therefore, a best practice recommendation is to prefix and/or suffix the username with a company identifier/abbreviation.