# Disabling full name changes

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-full-name-changes/53944>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 7, 2016, 11:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-full-name-changes/53944 "2016-12-07T23:32:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![thekoalaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thekoalaz/32/121326_2.png) [@thekoalaz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thekoalaz)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 11:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-full-name-changes/53944/1 "2016-12-07T23:32:54Z")

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Hi,

I have just begun operating a small discourse for real life friends and I wanted to enforce a Real Name policy.

I’ve required full name on sign up and an approval only policy, but after sign up users can edit their Full Name. I want to disable this so that an approved user’s full name is essentially locked after sign-up, but an admin can still edit the field.

I was looking at where this check happens and it seems there’s no logic that will let me enforce this policy exactly:

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/e8c7c6fab7b47d5a5c4f14bcfbe0f7312ed3e6cc/lib/guardian/user_guardian.rb#L22>

Username and e-mail have settings that relate to whether a user can self-edit them, but there are no such settings for full names. Is this true? Is there some work around?

Thanks!

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