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

[fishwick at cise.ufl.edu]

I like this idea of pseudo-anonymous - one way of
getting beyond the all too familiar "ghost town"
effect of multiverses is to
allow region or grid admins to enable this (although
can't this already be done by turning off authentication
checking?). This gets us closer to the "browsing" freedom
we get with the web.
-p

> 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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