I found tons of articles how to enable password complexity, can someone guide me to how to disable it? (oracle linux)
This is my system-auth
#%PAM-1.0
# This file is auto-generated.
# User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run.
auth required pam_env.so
auth sufficient pam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass
auth requisite pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 500 quiet
auth required pam_deny.so
account required pam_unix.so
account sufficient pam_succeed_if.so uid < 500 quiet
account required pam_permit.so
password requisite pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass retry=3
#password requisite pam_passwdqc.so min=N0,disabled,12,8,7 retry=3
password sufficient pam_unix.so md5 shadow nullok try_first_pass use_authtok
password required pam_deny.so
#password [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so minlen=1 sha512
session optional pam_keyinit.so revoke
session required pam_limits.so
session [success=1 default=ignore] pam_succeed_if.so service in crond quiet use_uid
session required pam_unix.so
commenting out pam_cracklib.so or changing the arguments, just break pam and make it impossible to use passwd at all. Thanks
Best Answer
PAM module pam_cracklib is responsible for testing password for complexity. configure like below.