Choosing Account Username

This privilege to choose your account username is only extended to users from School of Computing proper. For other users, your SoC Account username will be identical to your NUS-ID.

If you are allowed to choose your own username, you may either:

• use your NUS-ID; or
• form a username from your name
  • You may truncate characters from words forming your name;
  • You may use the words in any combination (or not at all);
  • You may use ' - ' between each subword but you may not start or end with them.
  • You may use numbers between or in place of each character.
  • the username must be between 5-8 characters in length.
  • the username must not be similar to an NUS-ID

The username can only consist of lowercase letters of the alphabet (a-z), numbers and the delimiter '-' . Whitespaces and other characters are not allowed.

E.g. if your name is “Tan Ah Mow”,
The following user names are okay:

• tanahmow
• tan8888
• tanmow99

The following user names are _not_ okay:

• tanameow
  - * Meow is not part of your name *
• alextan
  - * Alex may be your christian name but we do not know about it *
• tanahkow88
  - * Too long *
• tak
  - * Too short *
• u1999999
  - * resembles an NUS-ID *

E.g. if your name is “Tang AhMow”,
The following user names are okay:

• tanga
• tangahm
• tang8888

The following user names are _not_ okay:

• tangam
• amtang
  • * AhMow is processed as a single word, we do not know that it's 2 syllables *