How to allow IAM users to setup their own virtual MFA devices

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Published on 2014-06-07T16:04:26Z Indexed on 2014/06/08 15:30 UTC
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I want to let my IAM users to setup their own MFA devices, through the console, is there a single policy that I can use to achieve this?

So far I can achieve this through a number of IAM policies, letting them list all mfa devices and list users (so that they can find themselves in the IAM console and ...

I am basically looking for a more straight forward way of controlling this.

I should add that my IAM users are trusted users, so I don't have to (although it will be quite nice) lock them down to the minimum possible, so if they can see a list of all users that is ok.

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