[PilotMgr] Re: changing the userID?

["Daniel Pittman" <daniel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 1 May 2000, Jan Vilhuber <vilhuber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

> My userID on my pilot is '0' (this also gets printed out when this
> condition gets hit, i.e. username vilhuber and unique-ID 0).

So was mine until very recently.

> If I use something other than pilotmanager to upload programs (I've
> gotten into the habit of using pilot-xfer -i *.prc), then the
> lastSyncPC will also be '0'.
> 
> Since the above is an AND condition, I guess that a userID of '0' is
> unusual. Can I change this after the fact? How? Should I? Or is there
> a bug in the above line of code somewhere, i.e. couldn't we check the
> username itself to see if it still exists as well?

] install-user /dev/pilot 'My Name' 1234

This sets the user name and the unique ID to the pilot. Substitute the
correct path to your serial port, of course, for '/dev/pilot.'

'install-user' comes with the pilot-link tools.

        Daniel

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