How to Remove MySQL Validate Password Plugin

Tech World 2018-08-01 Channel: Linux

Abstract: you can simply uninstall the validate_password plugin from your MySQL server. Login to the MySQL command prompt as root user and run the following com

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The latest MySQL servers come with a validate password plugin. This plugin configures a password policy to make server MySQL more secure.

While changing the password, I got the error: ERROR 1819 (HY000): Your password does not satisfy the current policy requirements

Remove MySQL Validate Password Plugin

In this option, you can simply uninstall the validate_password plugin from your MySQL server. Login to the MySQL command prompt as root user and run the following command on command prompt.

mysql> uninstall plugin validate_password; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.05 sec)123mysql> uninstall plugin validate_password; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.05 sec)

If you don’t need to uninstall the plugin, then simply change the password policy of MySQL.