6.2.2.2 Legal Characters in the License File

In general, all license file fields are white-space delimited, meaning that no data item can contain embedded spaces, tabs, newlines or carriage returns. In addition, the following four characters are illegal in data items in the license (and options) file: “<“, ”>”, “&”, and double-quote (“).

Note: ISV license names cannot begin with the characters “rlm_”.

Note that all lines in option files (RLM or ISV) as well as license files must be shorter than 1024 characters. Anything over 1024 characters will be truncated.

Everything in the license file is case-insensitive, with the following three exceptions:

  • isv-binary-pathname on ISV lines [Note: case-sensitive on Unix systems only]
  • options-file-filename on ISV lines [Note: case-sensitive on Unix systems only]
  • short (~62-character) license keys (keys with bits/character of 6)
    Note: Any time RLM processes a username, it will replace any white space in the name with the underscore '_' character. This is true for usernames used as hostids, in server option files, or passed between client and server.

The three types of license lines (HOST, ISV, and LICENSE) are described below.