Introductory Student Accounts

Students taking CS 10000 and CS 20000 level classes such as:

are given Introductory Student Accounts on the introductory student computer loki.cs.kent.edu or loki.

The student accounts are created when you first register for one of these classes and remain for 2 following semesters. Many students will get an account in CS 10051 Intro. to Computer Science and will still be able to use the same account for CS 23021 Intro. to Object-Oriented Programming if they take it within 2 semesters.

Usernames

Introductory account usernames are in the form:

llfnnnna

  • ll is the same for all of these accounts
  • f is the first letter of your first name
  • nnnn is up to the first 4 letters of your last name
  • a is a digit for conflicts

For example:

Student Name Username
John Doughlljdoug0
Fred Petesllfpete0

This should be enough for most users to figure out their username. However, if your last name is less than 4 characters long, then you need to see about Short Last Names. If your username is to similar to another username then you need to look at the following section on Username Conflicts.

Username Conflicts

Because only some of the letters of your name are used to form your username there is a chance that two people with different names could have the same username.

These conflicts are handled by changing the digit at the end of the username. For example:

John Doughslljdoug0
Jeremy Douglaslljdoug2
Jason Doughslljdoug1

The ending digit is assigned in the order the accounts are created. If there are no more digits then characters of the alphabet are used.

Short Last Names

If the user has less than 4 letters in their last name then, the whole last name will be used. For example Jet Li would have the username lljli0 and similarly John Woo would have the username lljwoo0.

For example:

Jet Lilljli0
John Woolljwoo0