Error -1 decoding password

Products

• CA Automic Dollar Universe

Issue/Introduction

Problem with registering of a node:

bash-4.2$ ./unims -register -mshost uvms_server -msport 4184 -login admin -pwd )password
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `)'

bash-4.2$ ./unims -register -mshost uvms_server -msport 4184 -login admin -pwdfile pwd
Error -1 decoding password
Unable to get password in file: pwd

bash-4.2$ ./unims -register -mshost uvms_server  -msport 4184 -login admin -pwdfile "/du/pwd"
Error -1 decoding password
Unable to get password in file:du/pwd

Environment

Release : 6.x and 7.x

Component: Automic Dollar Universe

Resolution

Even if the login and password can only contain the following characters:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789!#&'()+,-.:;>=<?@[]_{|}~

Avoid starting the password with special characters like: 

!#&'()+,-.:;>=<?@[]_{|}~

Example:

)adcdef