[Opensim-dev] Guest logins for grids, an idea which could change a lot

[Sean Dague]

Stefan Andersson wrote:
> I can say that anonymous, Guest and 'ghost' presence modes has been part of Tribal Medias wishlist/roadmap for quite some time. 'Ghosts' in this case would be those that, totally unregistered, can consume a region but not interact with it, being an invisible passive observer.
> This would open up for quite a few showcase/casual gaming scenarios.
>  
> Unfortunately, it's again a matter of our 'base case' in OpenSim being the registered agent with an 1-to-1 with a scene presence. It will need some restructuring to make it happen.

I would think that you'd want anonymous users to show up in the region
(i.e. not be invisible) so that people in the region know that someone
is there.  Call is psuedo anonymous, where you don't need credentials,
and you can't interact with the environment beyond speaking, and you
show up as a grey gob, but others can still see that you are there.

This wouldn't be too bad to implement in the existing system (though you
might have to play around with permissions to create an anon class of
users).

	-Sean

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