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Asked: 2016-05-13 18:04:30 +0800 CST

How do I modify PAM's configuration on Ubuntu 15.10 so as to remove the password restrictions?

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My main account on my Ubuntu 15.10 has a password that does NOT meet the system's default password requirements. It is this way because either:

  • setting the password on installation doesn't run into any restrictions.
  • it was set during an earlier version which did not have such restrictions.

I have created a test user through the GUI and I am trying to set the password to test. It will not accept it. Other answers on this site say that I need to change the twenty-fifth line in /etc/pam.d/common-password from

password        [success=1 default=ignore]      pam_unix.so obscure sha512

to

password        [success=1 default=ignore]      pam_unix.so minlen=1 sha512

I did that, but the GUI still will not let me set my test user's password to test. Please tell me how to remove these password restrictions.

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