PWQuality: Linux password annoyances

Andrewgoh
2 min readDec 11, 2020

Various Linux distributions uses password complexity checks. This becomes an annoyance as each time you try to change passwords after the 3 prompts old password and 2 new passwords (repeated), it fails password complexity checks.

if you were to search the web (say google) you’d find various threads topics including how to disable password complexity checks e.g.

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