Description of problem: Secure environments that require passwords with upper, lower, number and special characters for passwords face issues to deploy when this is set in KeystonePasswordRegex. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 16.2 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Deploy stack passing: KeystonePasswordRegex: '^(?=.*?[a-zA-Z])(?=.*?[0-9])(?=.*?[#?!@\\/<>[:;{}`|.,_=~+$%^&*-]).{8,}$' Actual results: - Deployment fails at 2021-11-27 07:38:39.326392 | fa163eee-113c-13d6-a539-0000000082fd | FATAL | Wait for containers to start for step 3 using paunch | ctl-01 | error={"ansible_job_id": "167488509998.95659", "attempts": 93, "ch - Containers are not starting - Keystone log shows a CRITICAL issue while running _bootstrap_admin_user() keystone/keystone.log:2021-11-27 13:36:40.411 61 CRITICAL keystone [req-ac9dceb9-f3d2-447e-a7a9-aef48b870675 - - - - -] Unhandled error: keystone.exception.PasswordRequirementsValidationError: The password does not match the requirements: None. - Seems like the admin user does not meet the regexp criteria Expected results: Deploy should succeed Additional info: