# Can I rename "system" user permanently?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-rename-system-user-permanently/14909>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2014 年 4 月 20 日午後 2:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-rename-system-user-permanently/14909 "2014-04-20T14:51:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![BDub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bdub/32/108566_2.png) [@BDub](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BDub)\
**Post date:** [2014 年 4 月 20 日午後 2:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-rename-system-user-permanently/14909/1 "2014-04-20T14:51:05Z")

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I’ve impersonated the system user to change the name and avatar to make it look way cooler and personalized for my forum. However every time I update the forum it renames the system user back to “system”. It’s not so bad to go in and rename it back, but I’m hoping there is a better way to do this. I guess I could make another user and re-author the system posts, but doing it the way I did just seemed to be the most intuitive.

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