How to set any password in macOS

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:

  1. pwpolicy getaccountpolicies | awk 'NR>1' > ~/Desktop/file.plist
  2. nano ~/Desktop/file.plist or vi ~/Desktop/file.plist
  3. Change the quoted part to your Regex.
    policyAttributePassword matches '^$|.{4,}+'
  4. sudo pwpolicy setaccountpolicies ~/Desktop/file.plist
  5. passwd

Presets

  1. ^$|.{1,}+ : Any password. (Not the best Regex, but I didn’t want to mess around with it too much.)

You can also use the much more straightforward command:

  1. pwpolicy -clearaccountpolicies

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