How can I make my Mac accept a user password of less then 4 characters? [duplicate]

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I don't want secure password for my desktop. Instead I use just two letters for quick typing. I can change password in terminal by running:

passwd

But terminal gives me: Failed global policy "com.apple.defaultpasswordpolicy" Password change failed because password does not meet minimum quality requirements

I believe if the password has less than 4 characters this is blocked. The same limitation is when trying to set it by preference panel obviously.

Until now in last versions of system, only solution I found was installing of Server application from Apple and basically modifying you osx by it to be a server, so you can access one setting for password characters policy and be able to set whatever password you like. So is there other option ?

Answer 1

I found this not so easy solution on web, that works quickly instead of necessity to do it by Server application from apple.

In Terminal:

pwpolicy getaccountpolicies > temp.xml
nano temp.xml

Now remove text prior to first <xml tag and replace

<string>policyAttributePassword matches '^$|.{4,}+'</string>

to

<string>policyAttributePassword matches '^$|.{1,}+'</string>

then save file (Ctrl-O), exit (Ctrl-X) and run

sudo pwpolicy setaccountpolicies temp.xml

to install the updated policy.