Re: [coldsync-hackers] userid with visor, coldsync

[Andrew Arensburger <arensb+CShackers@ooblick.com>]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Rich Bowen wrote:
> I'm setting up coldsync on a new machine, new visor (platinum, if that
> matters) and I am getting a userID conflict. Coldsync and the Visor
> think that the id should be 2500-something, while linux has a userID
> of 1001 for this user. The usernames don't match either. Is it really
> required that these match? That seems like a rather inconvenient
> requirement, particularly if you work on 3 different machines, as I
> do. What's the workaround?

	It's deliberately inconvenient, but for a good cause. Before this
feature was added, it was easy to lose your data if you reset your Palm,
or upgraded it, or break registered apps that use the user ID or name for
the registration key.

	At any rate, the correct solution is to pick a username and user
ID, and add those to the pda{} block in your .coldsyncrc, e.g.:

	pda "Visor" {
	        directory: /homes/arensb/.visor;
	        username: "Andrew Arensburger";
	        userid: 2072;
	}

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