Restrict account profile editing

Last updated on October 2, 2026

Overview

AccelByte Gaming Services (AGS) enables you to apply restrictions to the ability for a player to edit their account profile. Preventing players from editing their usernames, for example, can make identity verification and fraud protection easier. Limiting editing access to other areas of player profiles can have other use cases, as well. This article shows you how to set up profile edit restrictions in the AGS Admin Portal or with the AGS CLI.

AGS Public Cloud

Profile edit restrictions are not yet available in AGS Public Cloud.

Permissions

AGS Private Cloud

This permission section applies to Private Cloud customers only

Make sure your account has the permissions in the table shown below before you attempt to configure profile edit restrictions in the AGS Admin Portal.

Usage	Permission Tag	Action
View the profile edit restrictions	ADMIN:NAMESPACE:{namespace}:PROFILESTRATEGY	READ
Update the profile edit restrictions	ADMIN:NAMESPACE:{namespace}:PROFILESTRATEGY	UPDATE

To follow the AGS CLI steps, you have installed the AGS CLI and signed in with an account that has the permissions above. See Install and sign in. The examples use a Bash shell.

Configure profile edit restrictions

Admin Portal

1. In the AGS Admin Portal, go to your publisher namespace.

2. Go to Admin Task > Account & Profile Setup > Profile Edit Restrictions.

3. Click the Edit Configurations button to update the restrictions for your player account profile.

   • Here are the account properties that can be restricted:
     • Display Name
     • Username (when it's enabled)
     • Date of Birth
     • Country
   • Here are the options you can configure for each account property.
     • Allowed - Unlimited Changes (default)
       • Players can edit their information anytime they want.
     • Allowed - Limited Changes
       • Players can edit their information at intervals which you can configure manually. For example: every 7 days or every 180 days.
     • Not Allowed
       • Players can enter their information during account creation only. After that, edits can only be made by administrators.

AGS CLI

1. Check the current restrictions. Replace <YourPublisherNamespace> with your publisher namespace:

   ags iam profile-update-strategies list --namespace <YourPublisherNamespace>

2. Update the restriction for one account property. Set --field to the property, and type in the request body to the option:

   ags iam profile-update-strategies update --namespace <YourPublisherNamespace> --field display_name \
     --json '{"type": "limited", "config": {"minimumAllowedInterval": 168}}'

   Account property	--field
   Display Name	display_name
   Username	username
   Date of Birth	dob
   Country	country

   Option	type
   Allowed - Unlimited Changes	unlimited
   Allowed - Limited Changes	limited
   Not Allowed	initial_only

   • minimumAllowedInterval: for limited only, the time players must wait between edits, in hours. The Admin Portal shows this value in days, so multiply the number of days by 24. For example, 7 days is 168. The Admin Portal allows 1 to 366 days.
   • For unlimited and initial_only, send an empty config: {"type": "unlimited", "config": {}}.

3. Repeat step 2 for each account property that you want to restrict.