Bug 742606

Summary: [RFE] password reset utility
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Benjamin Reed <ranger>
Component: ipaAssignee: Martin Kosek <mkosek>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: IDM QE LIST <seceng-idm-qe-list>
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Version: 7.0CC: dpal, jgalipea, ldelouw, lucas.yamanishi, mkosek
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Description Benjamin Reed 2011-09-30 18:06:31 UTC 
Not a bug per se, but an enhancement request.

While it's possible for a user to reset their own password, it currently requires being hooked into some level of "real" account access, like SSH'ing in or providing kerberos credentials.  We are using FreeIPA to provide a user-management backend for web-based services we are providing to our customers, and don't want them to have to configure Kerberos, or SSH into an account, just to set their password.

It would be nice to have a "password reset" tool that is accessible securely (like over HTTPS) which doesn't require special credentials other than knowledge of the existing username and password.  One such example I'll be evaluating since there is no built-in facility for this is PWM:

http://code.google.com/p/pwm/

Thanks!
Comment 2 Dmitri Pal 2011-09-30 18:55:44 UTC 
Upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1907
Comment 5 Martin Kosek 2014-04-10 08:09:14 UTC 
FreeIPA team reviewed recent request for a self-service password reset functionality and decided not to implement the feature to be part of core FreeIPA. Self-service password reset solutions do not meet the level of security required by FreeIPA and we would rather like to see it as a 3rd party integration projects.

A wiki page with full reasoning can be found at our wiki:
http://www.freeipa.org/page/Self-service_password_reset