Are Whitespace characters allowed at the end of a passsword?

Article Id: 131454

Status: Published

Updated On: 06-05-2019 08:37

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Issue/Introduction:

Does CA PPM support and allow entering whitespace characters at the end of the password?

Environment:

CA PPM 15.x

Resolution:

Even though it is possible to enter whitespace characters at the end of the password, CA PPM is trimming the password.
So, the password stored is the trimmed version of the password being typed.
In the same manner, when the user tries to log in, the password being typed is trimmed.

Hence, from a functional point of view, all these passwords would be the same:

mypassword
mypassword[_]
...
mypassword[_]...[_]