Device users are individuals whose devices have been registered manually, through messaging-based applications, or automatically, through replication-based applications.
Device users are managed in Sybase Control Center (SCC) according to the device they use to synchronize data. The device user is a mechanism that identifies the person that controls the device. For messaging environments, the ID for this users consists of abbreviated user name. In some cases, ID of the device user can match the user name property that the user defines as part of the connection settings of the messaging client on the device.
The device users contrasts with the concept of an application user. An application user is the actual back-end EIS identity. The application user ID is the mechanism used to authenticate data request with the security provider you configure for Unwired Server. An application user ID is required when a person subscribes to a package, or when the user preforms replay operations back to the EIS.