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disable-password-rules.md

Alpine: Disable password complexity requirements on Alpine Linux from Vultr

vi /etc/pam.d/base-password

Comment everything out, and add password required pam_unix.so sha512 shadow. The file should look like:

#%PAM-1.0
#password    requisite   pam_pwquality.so enforce_for_root
#password    required    pam_unix.so use_authtok sha512 shadow
password    required    pam_unix.so sha512 shadow
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