https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-in-the-cloud-questions/cloudformation-failed-due-to-password/m-p/1127248#M399 <P>The password requirement is only for the initial administrator account for Portal, and is a limitation of the PostgreSQL backend.&nbsp; It's not unique to chef, and is still a requirement when doing a manual install of Portal.&nbsp; Once the initial admin account has been created, all subsequent users can create passwords with letters, numbers, and special characters.</P> Fri, 17 Dec 2021 18:02:29 GMT ReeseFacendini 2021-12-17T18:02:29Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-in-the-cloud-questions/cloudformation-failed-due-to-password/m-p/1127187#M395 <P>After finally keeping resources, and checking the logs it seems this failure os due to:</P><P>The 'password' field can only have the numbers 0-9, the ASCII letters a-z, A-Z and the dot character (.)</P><P>Couple things here,</P><OL><LI>This is not validated when kicking off the CloudFormation.&nbsp;&nbsp;</LI><LI>Portal does not require these conditions, why is it required during the running of this chef script?</LI></OL> Fri, 17 Dec 2021 16:07:39 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-in-the-cloud-questions/cloudformation-failed-due-to-password/m-p/1127187#M395 JoeHershman 2021-12-17T16:07:39Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-in-the-cloud-questions/cloudformation-failed-due-to-password/m-p/1127248#M399 <P>The password requirement is only for the initial administrator account for Portal, and is a limitation of the PostgreSQL backend.&nbsp; It's not unique to chef, and is still a requirement when doing a manual install of Portal.&nbsp; Once the initial admin account has been created, all subsequent users can create passwords with letters, numbers, and special characters.</P> Fri, 17 Dec 2021 18:02:29 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-in-the-cloud-questions/cloudformation-failed-due-to-password/m-p/1127248#M399 ReeseFacendini 2021-12-17T18:02:29Z