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ERROR: The value of attribute "password" associated with an element type "user" must not contain the '<' character

Troubleshooting


Problem

Unable to start via cogconfig.sh as the following error is displays and fails to start.

Symptom

ERROR [main] org.apache.commons.digester.Digester - Parse Fatal Error at line 10 column 36: The value of attribute "password" associated with an element type "user" must not contain the '<' character.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The value of attribute "password" associated with an element type "user" must not contain the '<' character

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Modified date:
30 April 2025

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