Your password does not satisfy the current policy requirements

Question

Because of your password. You can see password validate configuration metrics using the following query in MySQL client:

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'validate_password%';

The output should be something like that :

+--------------------------------------+-------+
| Variable_name                        | Value |
+--------------------------------------+-------+
| validate_password.check_user_name    | ON    |
| validate_password.dictionary_file    |       |
| validate_password.length             | 6     |
| validate_password.mixed_case_count   | 1     |
| validate_password.number_count       | 1     |
| validate_password.policy             | LOW   |
| validate_password.special_char_count | 1     |
+--------------------------------------+-------+

then you can set the password policy level lower, for example:

SET GLOBAL validate_password.length = 6;
SET GLOBAL validate_password.number_count = 0;

Check the MySQL Documentation.

NOTE: This might not be a secure solution. But if you are working on a test environment, just need a quick fix and doesn't even care about the security settings. This is a quick solution.

The same issue happened to me when I ran "mysql_secure_installation" and modified password security level to 'medium'.

I bypassed the error by running the followings:

mysql -h localhost -u root -p
mysql>uninstall plugin validate_password;

make sure you reinstall the plugin "validate_password" if necessary.

If you don't care what the password policy is. You can set it to LOW by issuing below mysql command:

mysql> SET GLOBAL validate_password_policy=LOW;

For MySQL 8*

SET GLOBAL validate_password.policy=LOW

Reference Link to explain about policy - Click Here