Can I prevent the "enough DIFFERENT characters" check when using PAM cracklib.so?

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Issue

If I try and set a user with the password: bbbBBB11 I get this message:

BAD PASSWORD: it does not contain enough DIFFERENT characters

Even though I have the correct minimum (of 1) for lower/upper and digit.

Is there a way to reduce the type of checks the pam_cracklib.so modules does?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • PAM authentication with cracklib

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