Question [SOLVED]You are not allowed to change your name!

Hello,

just want to let you know about issue I had with one of my users today. She had trobles posting new topics or replying old ones with following error:

name: You are not allowed to change your name!

I've searched the forum but found nothing and started trobleshooting the issue by myself. I have two languages installed on my site and if the user has not specified the language exactly in a profile and just used the default language - the error comes up. However after she specified the language everything was working fine.

For me it looks like empty params field in the jos_users table causes the issue.

Hi,

I'm with the same problem as well. Using joomla 1.5.22 and kunena 1.6.1. I tried look at the language configuration, but its configured right.

Curious, the topic is marked as [solved] but there is no replies. Hope someone can help us.

Thanks in advance,
Bruno

Hi,

One of the users on my site reported an error when posting messages on the forum:

name: You are not allowed to change your name

I was looking here in the kunena support, but just found one message marked as solved without replies. The user on this message told about empty language parameter in jos_users, I checked but it didnt work for me.

Where is the problem?

Thanks in advance

Hello,

Can-you put please here the Kunena report configuratio nsettings ?

Is this user is logged or not logged ?

And you are able to reproduce the issue ?

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With my own login it works good and there are other users that it works good as well. But I reproduced the error using the login and password of the user that reported the error, you can do the same:

Happened to me the same thing with this Forum! I made an initial registration and when I tried to write a discussion on the support it gave me the following error:

name: You are not allowed to change your name

I had to register again and now everything works.

The registration data are