Talk:Auth

Is webLoginKey really working as advertised?

I've been maintaining a grid database for years, going through several iterations and version upgrades. At some point in time, the database acquired a webLoginKey for one of my users (the others either have NULL, an empty string, or the Null UUID). I can imagine that it relates to some tests with one of the popular web interfaces, very likely discontinued eons ago... I have no idea, it was way too many years ago.

My question is if there is any known usage for webLoginKey or if it can safely be repurposed for other usages (I'm thinking of things like authentication tokens for web interfaces that might have nothing in common with the intended usage of webLoginKey, whatever it used to be.

This page also mentions that webLoginKey is used by Second Life — but does the same apply to OpenSimulator as well? In other words, is it possible to use similar code to authenticate to OpenSimulator? If so, what exactly needs to be configured (and where)?

Thanks!

— Gwyneth Llewelyn (talk) 13:06, 5 July 2020 (PDT)