# Allow access to users to change their own password

**URL:** https://forum.opensearch.org/t/allow-access-to-users-to-change-their-own-password/599
**Category:** Security
**Created:** [May 2, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/allow-access-to-users-to-change-their-own-password/599 "2019-05-02T13:28:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![ThibaudF](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/thibaudf/32/31_2.png) [@ThibaudF](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/ThibaudF)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/allow-access-to-users-to-change-their-own-password/599/1 "2019-05-02T13:28:19Z")

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Hello guys !  
Just wanna know if you had a way to allow users to have access to the Security panel to be able to change their password.  
I would just allow people to change their own passwords and that’s it. No access to others functions like roles, roles mappings and all.

Thank you for the good work.  
Thi

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### Author: ![hardik-k-shah](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/hardik-k-shah/32/183_2.png) [@hardik-k-shah](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/hardik-k-shah)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2019, 2:15am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/allow-access-to-users-to-change-their-own-password/599/2 "2019-05-14T02:15:43Z")

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Thanks @ThibaudF This seems like valid feature request. Currently only Admin or user with REST API access can change password.

So, if there is an user with only read access or write access but does not have an access to REST API can not change a password.

I will creare an issue on github for this.

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### Author: ![hardik-k-shah](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/hardik-k-shah/32/183_2.png) [@hardik-k-shah](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/hardik-k-shah)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2019, 2:20am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/allow-access-to-users-to-change-their-own-password/599/3 "2019-05-14T02:20:44Z")

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I have submitted feature enahancement request on github. [https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/security/issues/47](https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/security/issues/47)

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### Author: ![ThibaudF](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/thibaudf/32/31_2.png) [@ThibaudF](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/ThibaudF)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/allow-access-to-users-to-change-their-own-password/599/4 "2019-05-14T18:12:18Z")

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Thank you for your answer and the issue !  
Of course it’s only for internal base users.  
Enjoying Open Distro 🙂

Thi

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### Author: ![pablo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/pablo/32/10363_2.png) [@pablo](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/pablo)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2021, 11:11am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/allow-access-to-users-to-change-their-own-password/599/5 "2021-02-26T11:11:31Z")

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Reset password feature for all internal users have been implemented in ODFE 1.4.0.

> <https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/opendistro-build/blob/main/release-notes/opendistro-for-elasticsearch-release-notes-1.4.0.md>