# Prevent users from changing their Full Names **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [April 11, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-users-from-changing-their-full-names/261337 "2023-04-11T16:21:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 22
**Author:** ![Joseph\_Hansen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/joseph_hansen/32/280051_2.png) [@Joseph\_Hansen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Joseph_Hansen)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2023, 2:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-users-from-changing-their-full-names/261337/22 "2023-05-02T14:31:00Z")
> [@AriesFR](#): > > And yes, I have a manual approval that is performed after I have checked that the members are valid and the forum is by invitation only. > [@AriesFR](#): > > On the forum we manage, although we give a lot of leeway on the username, we required (in the terms of use) that the users provide their full names and do not change them except to reflect legal name changes. This sounds like a privacy nightmare. Have you considered the implications of having people’s legal names in a database along with their IP address and email address? If someone malicious accessed your database, they could easily wreak havoc on your users’ personal, offline, lives with that particular combination of information --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-users-from-changing-their-full-names/261337)._