[Opensim-dev] User Authentication

[Dirk Krause]

I indeed didn't know that, thanks a bunch for pointing it out. Like Mark
I also would be interested on how this was achieved?

 

-- Dirk/Bart

 

PS: Since it seems that the whole proposed OpenID strategy will only
work for Charles, I better order a t-shirt with 'I AM CHARLES KRINKE'
printed on it.

 

Von: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de
[mailto:opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de] Im Auftrag von Diva Canto
Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Februar 2009 02:06
An: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
Betreff: Re: [Opensim-dev] User Authentication

 

Mark Malewski wrote: 

Just to clarify...

 

> Grids could provide openIDs in the form of
"openid.osgrid.org/users/screenname
<http://openid.osgrid.net/screenname> "

 

With all grids being independent of one another, or in the example given
by John, maybe use an "openid.osgrid.org/users/screenname"

 

http://openid.osgrid.org/users/Charles_Krinke

 

For those of you who don't know, this already exists. Click this:
http://osgrid.org:8002/users/charles_krinke
or this:
http://ucigrid00.nacs.uci.edu:8002/users/crista_lopes




Again, in this example Charles happens to have his identity at OSGrid,
but that's not a requirement of the exchange. It could just as easily
been an identity from another grid.

 

This way various grids could all run "openID" servers, and trust
agreements would need to be established between the various grids.

I'm not going to act on anything that suggests "trust agreements between
various grids." That's an AWG concept that I very much disagree with,
and want no part in. I have no problem with companies cutting corners on
security in order to be able to exchange agents on a lawyer-backed up
trust basis. But that's not what I'm doing here, and that's not what a
lot of people want OpenSim to be.

The goal is to be able to go from my home standalone to *any* sim out
there that I know nothing about, and still be sure that nothing bad will
happen to my belongings. Anything less than this is not acceptable as a
goal, for me.

Crista

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