Your password does not satisfy the current policy requirements

Question

I want to create a new user in mysql with syntax:

create user \'demo\'@\'localhost\' identified by \'password\';

But it returns an error: <

Answer 1

didn't work for me on ubuntu fresh install of mysqld, had to add this: to /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf or the server wouldn't start (guess the plugin didn't load at the right time when I simply added it without the plugin-load-add directive)

plugin-load-add=validate_password.so
validate_password_policy=LOW
validate_password_length=8
validate_password_mixed_case_count=0
validate_password_number_count=0
validate_password_special_char_count=0