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

[Bill_Stritzinge]

Stephen,

I just tried the same password on a new account 15.7 and it worked fine. I will try this on a later version of code and let you know, in this case I created a new account "bill" and my password policy looks as follows:

RDU-EBC-BDX8-2.2 # sh accounts password-policy---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Accounts global configuration (applied to new accounts on creation)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Password Max. age : None
Password History limit : None
Password Min. length : None
Password Character Validation : Disabled
Accts. lockout on login failures: Disabled
Accounts locked out : No
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
User Name Password Password Password Password Flags
Expiry Max. age Min. len History
Date Limit
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
admin None None None ---
user None None None ---
bill None None None ---
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Flags: (C) Password character validation enabled, (L) Account locked out
(l) Account lockout on login failures enabled
RDU-EBC-BDX8-2.3 #
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