The shell-safe default drew from letters and digits only, and every user without declared accounts is an identity account, so kcadm set-password rejected hermes and openclaw with invalidPasswordMinSpecialCharsMessage as soon as keycloak entered the GitLab#1 round without LDAP (4164f37981) and the extras file stopped replacing the users map (03e42bae6d; run 33689701895). The generator now draws from letters, digits and -_. and guarantees upper case, lower case, a digit and one mark, never in the leading position.
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A user password is pinned once by inventory creation from a shell-safe
alphabet, because it travels through Ansible, a shell and container exec.
An application whose registration demands a special character then had no
way to say so, and roles worked around it with a second credential beside
the account they already owned. The account now carries algorithm and
validation itself, two roles disagreeing about one account abort instead of
one silently winning, and an unsatisfiable pair fails naming both halves.
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A user password reaches its application through Ansible, a shell, a container
exec -e and finally the runtime's own environment reader. The generator seeded
it from the same alphabet as the become password, punctuation included, and
that does not survive the chain intact.
Three roles had already worked around it by declaring a separate alphanumeric
credential for an identity that their meta/users.yml already declares, and
saying so in the description. Removing those without fixing the generator would
have reintroduced exactly the bug they were built against, so the generator is
fixed first and all three now read the user's own password. At length 64 the
smaller alphabet costs nothing worth measuring, and the become password keeps
the old one because it travels a different path.
Zammad additionally used the bot's password for its wizard-bypass admin, one
secret for two users. Each has its own declaration and now its own value.
A test asserts the generated password is alphanumeric, so a future change to
the alphabet fails there rather than inside a Ruby ENV.fetch in a container.
The provisioned become password doubles as the Keycloak administrator realm password (user-administrator/meta/users.yml) and the guide flow generated it 64-char alphanumeric, so kcadm set-password failed the realm passwordPolicy specialChars(1) on every fresh single-app deploy. Delegate generate_random_password to ValueGenerator.generate_strong_password, the same class-guaranteeing generator every other realm user already gets via the strong_password filter; the realm policy stays strict. Also drop the commented-out Trusted Hosts block from the realm template.
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