Illegal password characters in XOS?

[Stephen_Stormon]

Are there illegal password characters in XOS? As an example, I had been trying to change a password on a Summit running 15.2.1.5 to k&4D#hE$w(Wf but the switch responds as below after entering that PW at the "New Password:" and "Reenter password:" prompts and the PW isn't changed.

* Summit-CV-Core.5 # config account smithj
Current user's password:
New password:
Reenter password:
Error: not well-formed (invalid token)

Password policy on the Summit is as follows:
Password Max. age : None
Password History limit : 4
Password Min. length : 8
Password Character Validation : Disabled
Accts. lockout on login failures: Disabled
Accounts locked out : No

[Dorian_Perry]

GTAC Knowledge Article:
http://gtacknowledge.extremenetworks.com/articles/Q_A/Are-There-Illegal-Password-Characters-in-XOS/?...

[Dorian_Perry]

Hi Stephen, Bill,

This is known issue resolved by CR xos0051121.

"Existing account password cannot be changed if password string contains '&' or '<' special characters."

Fixed in EXOS 15.1.5, 15.2.4, 15.3.2, 15.4.1 and later.

[Bill_Stritzinge]

Agreed.. Just tried it with 15.3 and it worked too... Hope all is well with you.

Bill

[Stephen_Stormon]

I just tried the same PW on a switch with 15.3.1.4 and it worked fine. I tried removing the "&" in the PW and that was apparently the conflicting issue with 15.2.