How do I turn off the mysql password validation

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It seems that I may have inadvertently loaded the password validation plugin in MySQL 5 7  This plugin seems to force all passwords to comply to certain rules   I would like to turn this off   I ve tried changing the validate password length variable as suggested here to no avail   mysql gt  SET GLOBAL validate password length 4  Query OK  0 rows affected  0 00 sec   mysql gt  SET PASSWORD FOR  app    PASSWORD  abcd    ERROR 1819  HY000   Your password does not satisfy the current policy requirements   I would like to either unload the plugin or neuter it somehow

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You can configure this in mysql configuration file open /etc/my.cnf file In this file all the lines which is configuring the password policy make those commented like

#validate-password=FORCE_PLUS_PERMANENT
#validate_password_length=10
#validate_password_mixed_case_count=1
#validate_password_number_count=1
#validate_password_policy=MEDIUM

Uncomment and change the value of the properties you want to change.

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Further to the answer from ktbos   I modified the mysqld cnf file and mysql failed to start  It turned out that I was modifying the wrong file   So be sure the file you modify contains segment tags like  mysqld safe  and  mysqld    Under the latter I did as suggested and added the line   validate password policy LOW   This worked perfectly to resolve my issue of not requiring special characters within the password

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For mysql 8 0 the command to disable password validation component is  UNINSTALL COMPONENT  file   component validate password    To install it back again  the command is  INSTALL COMPONENT  file   component validate password    If you just want to change the policy of password validation plugin  SET GLOBAL validate password policy   0       For LOW SET GLOBAL validate password policy   1       For MEDIUM SET GLOBAL validate password policy   2       For HIGH

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Building on the answer from Sharfi  edit the  etc my cnf file and add just this one line   validate password policy LOW   That should sufficiently neuter the validation as requested by the OP   You will probably want to restart mysqld after this change   Depending on your OS  it would look something like   sudo service mysqld restart   validate password policy takes either values 0  1  or 2 or words LOW  MEDIUM  and STRONG which correspond to those numbers   The default is MEDIUM  1  which requires passwords contain at least one upper case letter  one lower case letter  one digit  and one special character  and that the total password length is at least 8 characters   Changing to LOW as I suggest here then only will check for length  which if it hasn t been changed through other parameters will check for a length of 8   If you wanted to shorten that length limit too  you could also add validate password length in to the my cnf file     For more info about the levels and details  see the mysql doc       For MySQL 8  the property has changed from  validate password policy  to  validate password policy    See the updated mysql doc for the latest info

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Uninstall   mysql gt  uninstall plugin validate password    An uninstalled plugin is not displayed by show plugins   Install   mysql gt  install plugin validate password SONAME  validate password so     Disabled by configuration    mysqld  validate password   OFF   A plugin can be disabled by configuration only if installed

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For references and the future  one should read the doc here https   dev mysql com doc mysql-secure-deployment-guide 5 7 en secure-deployment-password-validation html  Then you should edit your mysqld cnf file  for instance    vim  etc mysql mysql conf d mysqld cnf   Then  add in the  mysqld  part  the following    plugin-load-add validate password so validate password policy LOW   Basically  if you edit your default  it will looks like      mysqld        Basic Settings   user              mysql pid-file           var run mysqld mysqld pid socket             var run mysqld mysqld sock port              3306 basedir            usr datadir            var lib mysql tmpdir             tmp lc-messages-dir    usr share mysql skip-external-locking plugin-load-add validate password so validate password policy LOW   Then  you can restart   systemctl restart mysql   If you forget the plugin-load-add validate password so part  you will it an error at restart   Enjoy

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If you want to make exceptions  you can apply the following  hack   It requires a user with DELETE and INSERT privilege for mysql plugin system table   uninstall plugin validate password  SET PASSWORD FOR  app    PASSWORD  abcd    INSTALL PLUGIN validate password SONAME  validate password so     Bland security disclaimer  Consider  why you are making your password shorter or easier and perhaps consider replacing it with one that is more complex  However  I understand the  it s 3AM and just needs to work  moments  just make sure you don t build a system of hacks  lest you yourself be hacked

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To disable password checks in mariadb-10 1 24  Fedora 24  I had to comment out a line in  etc my cnf d cracklib password check cnf file    plugin-load-add cracklib password check so   then restart mariadb service   systemctl restart mariadb service

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For mysql 8 0 7  Go to your mysql directory  and then use   sudo bin mysql secure installation   to configure the password option

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I was having a problem on Ubuntu 18 04 on Mysql  When I needed to create a new user  the policy was always high   The way I figured out how to disable  for future colleagues who come to investigate  was set to low   Login to the mysql server as root  mysql -h localhost -u root -p   Set the new type of validation  SET GLOBAL validate password policy 0    For Low   Restart mysql  sudo service mysql restart

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CREATE USER  username   localhost  IDENTIFIED BY  password   GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON     TO  organizer   localhost   WITH GRANT OPTION   CREATE USER  username      IDENTIFIED BY  password   GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON     TO  organizer      WITH GRANT OPTION  FLUSH PRIVILEGES    no need to stop start mysql

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On some installations  you cannot execute this command until you have reset the root password  You cannot reset the root password  until you execute this command  Classic Catch-22    One solution not mention by other responders is to temporarily disable the plugin via mysql configuration  In any my cnf  in the  mysqld  section  add   skip-validate password 1   and restart the server  Change the password  and set the value back to 0  and restart again

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Here is what I do to remove the validate password plugin    Login to the mysql server as root mysql -h localhost -u root -p Run the following sql command  uninstall plugin validate password  If last line doesn t work  new mysql release   you should execute UNINSTALL COMPONENT  file   component validate password        I would not recommend this solution for a production system  I used   this solution on a local mysql instance for development purposes only

[mysql] How do I turn off the mysql password validation?

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