ORA-02153: invalid VALUES password string

I am trying to alter an oracle user with the values clause rather than supplying the password in plain text but I am getting the error.

ORA-02153: invalid VALUES password string


SQL> alter user harvey identified by values 'S:AE24159F69EAD93A06E2D274D4C3E493EEE134CBCAA88CE869AEE7A40AC4;T:2E3AC72D182037E1EEC8D07FC1AAA7315940BF742217A635DBE4A58BF3E56B524E593BF9D30BD6B3CD73C3B56
  2  A781A00DD56D35E1E2C531DA702D4B6BF9A4D6C21597BA18C11BAFED7D9B9627A179DB5;337BCAD956B180F8';
alter user harvey identified by values 'S:AE24159F69EAD93A06E2D274D4C3E493EEE134CBCAA88CE869AEE7A40AC4;T:2E3AC72D182037E1EEC8D07FC1AAA7315940BF742217A635DBE4A58BF3E56B524E593BF9D30BD6B3CD73C3B56
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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-02153: invalid VALUES password string


SQL>


I could not get my head around what is this, but it looks like it is something to do with the values string.

I have noticed that when I run the get_ddl for user it returned the hash of password in multiple lines and I was copying and pasting it and hence getting the error.

In order to fix this I have to get that value in one line and then it works

SQL> alter user harvey identified by values 'S:AE24159F69EAD93A06E2D274D4C3E493EEE134CBCAA88CE869AEE7A40AC4;T:2E3AC72D182037E1EEC8D07FC1AAA7315940BF742217A635DBE4A58BF3E56B524E593BF9D30BD6B3CD73C3B56A781A00DD56D35E1E2C531DA702D4B6BF9A4D6C21597BA18C11BAFED7D9B9627A179DB5;337BCAD956B180F8';

User altered.

SQL>

Done deal :-)