<p>You can lock user data fields. This is useful for sites where the user data is maintained by the administrators manually by editing user records or uploading using the 'Upload users' facility. If you are locking fields that are required by Moodle, make sure that you provide that data when creating user accounts or the accounts will be unusable.</p><p>Consider setting the lock mode to 'Unlocked if empty' to avoid this problem.</p>