Flag- is there a way to allow users to only flag themselves?

Question

I'm on Drupal 7 with Flag 2.0 (beta9). The flag module provides a checkbox option for user flags, Users may flag themselves. However, I would like to allow users to only flag themselves. In other words, I want to give each user an on/off switch as a flag, but each user should only be able to toggle the switch for herself.

What I am trying to do: I have some options users select at registration (are you interested in A? B? C? etc.) These are checkboxes. I want to give users an easy way to change these options after registering. If I send them to the edit account screen, they get the option to change their password, e-mail address, etc., which is too much. I was thinking of using flags to do this (with a rule that triggers to Set a data value when the user is flagged/unflagged), but it is crucial that users only be able to change their own values.

Answer 1

Is there a way to use a node flag instead? Out of the box, there you can restrict it to a node type and also to content only owned by the user (or not).

So if you have the equivalent of a content profile set up in d7, you would be able to set it up so a flag was restricted to that type of content and only to the node owner, which might accomplish what you are after.