Which special characters are allowed in vAPP for external Oracle DB password?

Products

• CA Identity Manager
• CA Identity Governance
• CA Identity Portal
• CA Identity Suite

Issue/Introduction

When changing the external database password via the vAPP console you may find that some special characters are not accepted.

Environment

14.x

Virtual Appliance

Resolution

vAPP does not allow the following characters in the external DB password:

# at the beginning

\

"

'

` (backtick)

$

!

The rest of the constraints, if any, are imposed by the DB.