[DOCS-5113] KeyFile valid charset exposition is incomplete Created: 26/Mar/15  Updated: 11/Jan/17  Resolved: 27/Jul/16

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: manual
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: 01112017-cleanup

Type: Improvement Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Ian Bentley Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Won't Fix Votes: 0
Labels: None
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
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Environment:

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/generate-key-file/


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Days since reply: 8 years, 46 weeks, 6 days ago

 Description   

The docs currently read: "A key’s length must be between 6 and 1024 characters and may only contain characters in the base64 set." This can lead to frustration, because mongodb won't handle the '=' character gracefully. '=' is used as a padding character to round out base 64 encodings that don't round to x % 3 chars.

Since '=' occurs in most base64 encodings, I believe we should mention that it is an invalid character for keyFiles.


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