Comment 14 for bug 1623440

it is strange though that I did not face this issue since I installed mysql (a couple of months ago) and just observed this today.

The password validate plugin was just working fine until today. And mysql dev site has the same policy setting options as I had in my.cnf.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/validate-password-options-variables.html