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

[Stefan Andersson]

> 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.
 
Yes and no, depending on application. I guess what I'm saying is that we could allow for those cases just by choosing another base case. OpenSim definitively should support not sending avatar updates to all connected clients. I guess that would make for some interesting test cases when it comes to performance as well.
 
> 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,
 
Just don't send the av appearance... and you will. That should probably happen if you don't automatically create av appearance for non-authenticated agents.
 
> 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).
Yup, it's those kinds of experiments I think we should start doing, to get a feel for what the anonymous base case would mean.
 
/Stefan
 
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