diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..51caa6c9ca8eae1ddff9ed138ca08f453522e0e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+*~
+.DS_Store
+.idea
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/AuthRemoteuser.body.php b/AuthRemoteuser.body.php
index 75d61c63dd916cfa610a0081c1bfeb15b2036b52..cc1b6af7624e29030c0319320d2adc80659ee098 100644
--- a/AuthRemoteuser.body.php
+++ b/AuthRemoteuser.body.php
@@ -156,8 +156,6 @@ class AuthRemoteuser extends MediaWiki\Session\ImmutableSessionProviderWithCooki
 
         if ($wgAuthRemoteuserName) {
             $user->setRealName($wgAuthRemoteuserName);
-        } else {
-            $user->setRealName('');
         }
     }
 
@@ -181,7 +179,7 @@ class AuthRemoteuser extends MediaWiki\Session\ImmutableSessionProviderWithCooki
                     "", $username);
             }
         } else {
-            $username = "";
+            $username = null;
         }
 
         return $username;
diff --git a/extension.json b/extension.json
index c059779baace05a07d3f874dada3047aa3238b18..678a2d888088a4b9b8b53e711540151069f2c1aa 100644
--- a/extension.json
+++ b/extension.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "AuthRemoteuser",
   "namemsg": "authremoteuser-extensionname",
-  "version": "1.3.1",
+  "version": "1.3.2",
   "author": ["Otheus Shelling", "Rusty Burchfield", "James Kinsman", "Daniel Thomas", "Ian Ward Comfort", "[[mw:User:MarkAHershberger|Mark A. Hershberger]]", "Jonas Gröger", "Andreas Fink"],
   "url": "https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AuthRemoteuser",
   "descriptionmsg": "authremoteuser-desc",