====== 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 *