# Update username tag

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/update-username-tag/6065>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 20, 2013, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/update-username-tag/6065 "2013-03-20T16:44:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jonathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jonathan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jonathan)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/update-username-tag/6065/1 "2013-03-20T16:44:11Z")

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is there any way to change the username sqltag that ignition uses for auditing without having the user provide their password?

I am creating a system that uses the OSUsername, but to auto login to the project first it has a generic username that is being used to log audit inform and is shown in the client status gateway page.

the only way i see to change the client username is to call the function system.security.validateUser or system.security.switchUser, but those require passwords which defeats the purpose of what i am trying to do.

Thank you,

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**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/update-username-tag/6065/2 "2013-03-20T18:31:09Z")

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No, unfortunately we use whoever is logged in for the audit system. You would have to switch the user to change the username.