[Freeipa-users] Password change rights

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Fri, 02 Sep 2016, Mike Driscoll wrote:
>Hello.  I want to script the new user creation process.  I read in
>section 9.4 that "any user who has password change rights can change a
>password and no password policies are applied, but the other user must
>reset the password at the next login.”  I want to create an account
>with this limited capability for inclusion in a script.  But I can’t
>figure out how to configure an account to have this capability without
>being a full admin.  How can I create new user accounts and set initial
>passwords in a script?
You need to create a permission that allows to write to password
attributes. Then create a privilege and role that utilize this
permission.

Then you would assign the user that is capable to reset passwords to
that role and it should be enough.

I recently wrote an article how to create new permissions:
https://vda.li/en/posts/2016/08/30/Creating-permissions-in-FreeIPA/

You only need to look at selfservice 'Self can write own
password' and create a normal permission with similar effective
attributes:
# ipa selfservice-show 'Self can write own password'
  Self-service name: Self can write own password
  Permissions: write
  Attributes: userpassword, krbprincipalkey, sambalmpassword, sambantpassword

Note the difference between selfservice and permission -- the former is
always executed against SELFDN of a bind identity, e.g. those who
authenticate, the latter can take care of both the target and the bind
identity.
-- 
/ Alexander Bokovoy