Which conf file handles password complexity during account creation

[Barry Brimer]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2020, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 3:01 PM Broking, Brian R <brb10 at psu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> It could be pam_pwquality.so
>> You may also want to check /etc/security/pwquality.conf
>>
>> It could also be pam_passwdqc.so  or pam_cracklib.so depending on the system builders choice.
>>
>> This assumes you are doing local authentication and not using IPA which would have it's own Password Policy.
>>
>> Good Luck.  Been there and know what you are dealing with.
>
> Thanks. I commented the pam_pwquality.so lines in passwd and
> system-auth. I now get "passwd: Authentication token manipulation
> error". I guess I went down a rabbit hole.

What's in your /etc/pam.d/system-auth and if you have one 
/etc/pam.d/password-auth