# Prevent Google OAuth2 users getting username "user1", "user2"...?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-google-oauth2-users-getting-username-user1-user2/379798
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 22, 2025, 7:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-google-oauth2-users-getting-username-user1-user2/379798 "2025-08-22T07:59:01Z")
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### Author: ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pmusaraj/32/119489_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2025, 4:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-google-oauth2-users-getting-username-user1-user2/379798/3 "2025-08-22T16:00:35Z")

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I am pretty sure this is coming from this site setting

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/a/9/8a9e9b8650939172775a7689337ed3b16aa8aa3d.png)

If unchecked, the username picker will default to `userN`, especially if the user doesn’t have a display name in their upstream account.

Security 1, convenience 0 😀

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