How do I avoid password checking against system dictionary?

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The Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) for Linux is a suite of shared libraries that enable the local system administrator to choose how applications authenticate users. System wide user authentication is done with the help of two modules: pam_cracklib and pam_unix in the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file.

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