how to prevent users from overwriting each other's data

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For pouchdb, it supports remote sync with a server-side DB.

http://pouchdb.com/guides/databases.html

However, for a multi-user app, it seems the client can simply change the database name to anything, and may even overwrite other users' data.

How to prevent this? Create a separate DB for each user?

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"DB per user" is a pretty standard authentication model in CouchDB/PouchDB. (Don't worry - databases are cheap in CouchDB.) There are some examples of different recipes in the pouchdb-authentication README as well as a more complex example where multiple users partially share data amongst themselves.