1887108 - "Validation error:Master Password must be same as confirmation ,but was different" error during configuration wizard

In PI Configuration Wizard you receive the following error, despite the fact that the entered passwords are the same:

"Validation error:Master Password must be same as confirmation , but was different"

The default trace file contains more details about this error:

com.sap.tc.lm.ctc.metamodel.exception.XMLParsingException: XML syntax error <basic><UMESettingsContainer_UMESettingsDDICContainer><UMESettingsContainer_DDICUser value="DDIC"/>
<UMESettingsContainer_DDICPassword value="<password>"/></UMESettingsContainer_UMESettingsDDICContainer><J2EEAdministratorContainer_2_J2EEAdministratorContainer1><J2EEAdministratorContainer_2_J2EEUser value="J2EE_ADMIN"/>
<J2EEAdministratorContainer_2_J2EEPassword value="<password>"/></J2EEAdministratorContainer_2_J2EEAdministratorContainer1><MasterPasswordContainer_2_MasterPwdContainer>
<MasterPasswordContainer_2_MasterPwd ="<password>"/><MasterPasswordContainer_2_MasterPwdConf value="<password>"/></MasterPasswordContainer_2_MasterPwdContainer></basic>
at com.sap.tc.lm.ctc.metamodel.util.XMLUtil.createXMLNode(XMLUtil.java:688)
at com.sap.tc.lm.ctc.metamodel.util.XMLPathUtil_1_5.getStringValue(XMLPathUtil_1_5.java:73)
...
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The reference to entity "<one part of the password>" must end with the ';' delimiter.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:249)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:284)
at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(DocumentBuilder.java:131)
at com.sap.tc.lm.ctc.metamodel.util.XMLUtil.getDocument(XMLUtil.java:635)
at com.sap.tc.lm.ctc.metamodel.util.XMLUtil.getDocument(XMLUtil.java:646)
at com.sap.tc.lm.ctc.metamodel.util.XMLUtil.createXMLNode(XMLUtil.java:685)
... 74 more

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• SAP NetWeaver 7.0
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