# IAM: Allows IAM users to update their own credentials programmatically and in the console
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This example shows how you might create an identity-based policy that allows IAM users to update their own access keys, signing certificates, service specific credentials, and passwords. This policy defines permissions for programmatic and console access.

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```
{
    "Version":"2012-10-17",		 	 	 
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "iam:ListUsers",
                "iam:GetAccountPasswordPolicy"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "iam:*AccessKey*",
                "iam:ChangePassword",
                "iam:GetUser",
                "iam:*ServiceSpecificCredential*",
                "iam:*SigningCertificate*"
            ],
            "Resource": ["arn:aws:iam::*:user/${aws:username}"]
        }
    ]
}
```

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To learn how a user can change their own password in the console, see [How an IAM user changes their own password](id_credentials_passwords_user-change-own.md).

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Identity and Access Management. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query IAM` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).