# Allow name removal using SSO

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-name-removal-using-sso/141691
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 15, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-name-removal-using-sso/141691 "2020-02-15T17:23:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2020, 9:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-name-removal-using-sso/141691/2 "2020-02-18T09:26:37Z")

</div>

This feels like a #Contribute > Feature request to me. At the moment you can use the admin API to clear names in cases like this. See:

> [@Reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576):
>
> Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. The API is documented at [docs.discourse.org](https://docs.discourse.org). You can also use the [discourse\_api](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api) Ruby gem as a client library. However, not every endpoint is documented. To determine how to do something with the JSON API here are some steps you can follow. Example: recategorize a topic. Go to a topic and start editing a category: Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select …

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-name-removal-using-sso/141691)._