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I just installed macOS Mojave and put in my usual short desktop-only password I've been using for years (yes, you read that right). Now though, the operating system rejects setting a password less than 4 characters. It also does not allow having no password at all.
I am completely comfortable using the shell if need be.
How can I change the password policy to allow quite short passwords?
It seems with heat issues, you'll want to make a very good backup at night after it's been cool or off all day and then wipe it and test if you can rely on this hardware.
The software can't possibly work when the hardware is throttling or stopping the processing. Without charging circuitry - you can't really use a portable Mac. Also, it will be hard to separate a shut down due to SMC failing to sense proper charge / voltage and this might have nothing to do with normal sleep.
Looking at this from the outside, I'd start with a clean install to see if you can confirm all the symptoms are directly or related to hardware.
This might just be a simple service outage or a migration to move iCloud data to a new container or migrate it to make it ready for the fall iOS and macOS releases and new features that ran into a glitch.
The same way thing has happened to me recently. Yesterday I had stuff in my iPhone analytics dating back to July,8th. I went to show them to a coworker today and 80% of them were gone. I don’t have any idea how, that coupled with some other stuff has me worried that’s it’s nefarious.
I also feel as though somebody has reported me to the police and that I am now listed as an aggressive or dangerous person. So it's not at all odd to feel what you're feeling so I wanted to post that you're not alone in this take.
Best Answer
Optionally, learn a bit of the regular expression language - regex (this may take a while) and you can use the one crafted below for a 4 character length password. Here’s how to retrieve the configuration, edit that file, and then load it into the system:
pwpolicy getaccountpolicies | awk 'NR>1' > ~/Desktop/file.plistnano ~/Desktop/file.plistChange the quoted part to your Regex.
pwpolicy setaccountpolicies ~/Desktop/file.plistpasswdPresets:
^$|.{1,}+: Any password. (Not the best Regex, but I didn't want to mess around with it too much.)Confirmed this works with macOS Mojave (10.14).
Source: Modify pwpolicy in Sierra