> selfhosted gitlab - there was no option to reduce password complexity for my users
Gitlab's default requirements aren't that intense, but you can make them more stringent if you want.
https://docs.gitlab.com/user/profile/user_passwords/#passwor...
I guess your goal was to allow users to have 4 character passwords, i.e. "love." which afaik you can't do.
They must have changed that or I was completely off base because I was just trying to remove special characters and drop it from 12 (I think) and I saw them close a feature request saying they didn't think they should support it. It's possible I misunderstood and the feature request was as you say