[389-users] Re: user password change issue

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Hi, I appreciate the help, no amount of using search engines found me that, what does the "Allow Users to Change their Passwords" in General Settings do?

From: Rob Crittenden via 389-users <389-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 7, 2025 7:03 PM
To: Mark Reynolds <mareynol@xxxxxxxxxx>; General discussion list for the 389 Directory server project. <389-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Van Remoortere, Arnaud <avanremo@xxxxxxxxxx>; Rob Crittenden <rcritten@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [389-users] Re: user password change issue
 
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Mark Reynolds wrote:
>
> On 7/7/25 1:51 PM, Rob Crittenden via 389-users wrote:
>> Van Remoortere, Arnaud via 389-users wrote:
>>> Hi there, I've created a posixAccount with a userPassword and can login
>>> using this user over SSH, the issue is that although "Allow Users to
>>> Change their Passwords" is selected in General Settings, I only managed
>>> to allow a user to change their own password by writing an ACI:
>>>
>>> (target="ldap:///cn=jack,ou=users,dc=lab")(targetattr="userPassword")(version
>>>
>>> 3.0; acl "password"; allow(write)
>>> userdn="ldap:///cn=jack,ou=users,dc=lab";)
>>>
>>> I'm hoping to not need an ACI for each user if there's a better way?
>> There is a bind type of "self" which applies to the bound user.
>> Self-service basically.
>>
>> This is from the 389-ds docs on access control:
>>
>> # ldapmodify -D "cn=Directory Manager" -W -H ldap://server.example.com -x
>>
>> dn: ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
>> changetype: modify
>> delete: aci
> I think you mean "add", not "delete" :-)  This this a copy/paste from
> the docs?  If so, can you send me the link?

It was PEBKAC. The docs show both how to add the new ACI and how to
delete it. I flipped back and forth and copied the wrong one.

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rob

>> aci: (targetattr="userPassword") (version 3.0; acl "Allow users
>>    updating their password"; allow (write) userdn= "ldap:///self";)
>>
>> rob
>>

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