[Opensim-dev] Mantis#2816 patch and openid

[Mic Bowman]

inventory & asset server extensions that leverage openid will be
posted on the distributed asset forge project soon. we're working to
validate the concepts in the forge project & then start carving the
changes up into smaller chunks for incremental patching once we've
convinced ourselves that this is useful. the openid parts are pretty
fundamental to making any of these external services work so it seemed
like a good starting point.

--mic

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Sean Dague <sdague at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mic Bowman wrote:
>> So this is really an API that can be used to apply the set of
>> identities managed by the user server to other services. A couple more
>> places this could be useful... the web interfaces like opensimwi
>> currently manipulate the database directly in order to perform
>> authentication for account management. Also, the Alan's REST
>> interfaces for asses & inventory on the region server currently cannot
>> authenticate a specific user in grid mode (there is no API & the User
>> server does not hand out the hashed password to the region server in
>> grid mode).
>>
>> The choice of OpenID vs some other API is really just a choice to
>> support a fairly standard API rather than invent something new.
>
> Ok, so this is about exposing the OpenSim data to things other than the
> client.  That makes a bit more sense from what I saw in the patch.
>
> It would be nice to see an example of how this would be used in the
> OpenSim Inventory server, for instance.  But I see how this could be a
> good first step in that direction.
>
>        -Sean
>
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