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OCI - How To Disable Password Quality Checks in Oracle Linux

in Linux

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Linux x86-64

Goal:

By default, when creating a password for a user in Oracle Linux, multiple password quality checks are enforced to ensure password length and complexity.

It is well known and documented that given no such checks, users will revert to using simple passwords that are easy to remember and easy to guess.

As such, it is strongly advised to not remove or reduce the quality of these checks, otherwise the system will become more vulnerable to brute force attacks.

It is also advised to not enable SSH password login in Oracle Linux instances to avoid such attacks.

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