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This is a mandatory step, after virtualmin installation, or ssh clients won't work...
For root user, though...
Perhaps this should be added & executed by some script, at post-install, per default?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/992771/mysql-u-root-doesnt-work-but-sudo...
Also, mandatory on ubuntu...
in my.cnf
validate_password_policy=LOW