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cd /etc/pam.d

cp -p system-auth system-auth.bak

vi system-auth

* in the file system-auth, comment out the line that contains pam_cracklib.so by inserting "#" at the start of the line

* in the line that contains use_authtok remove that word use_authtok from the line