[Opensim-dev] Anonymous Avatar

[Hurliman, John]

Definitely possible, it's just a policy decision on behalf of the grid admin. While I was writing the Cable Beach auth code I started out with assigned names because it was quicker to implement than fetching attributes from an identity service.

John

>-----Original Message-----
>From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-
>bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Thomas Schindler
>Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:00 AM
>To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
>Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Anonymous Avatar
>
>Let's assume we set up a server and use it - let's call it - a showroom.
>This server would be accessable through the internet, so anybody could
>connect to it. Now it would be annoying to create new accounts anytime
>we want to show the content of our showroom to somebody, so we say: with
>login "guest" and password "guest" anybody can connect anytime to the
>server, can walk through the region but can do nothing else. So far, so
>good - no trouble until here. But it may be possible 2 or more person
>use this login at the same time. So the idea is to create temporary
>accounts on demand (guest1, guest2, ...) and delete them afterwards. Is
>this possible or are there restrictions in the login process, which can
>not be bypassed.
>
>greetings
>Thomas
>
>
>Destiny Niles schrieb:
>
>	are you talking about your own opensim region on a local system or
>one
>	of the systems that are hosted?
>	I guess in theory you could have pre-setup anonymous avatars in
>the
>	user database and a sql trigger to reset them on log out.
>
>	On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Daniel Herzog <dhe at mms-
>dresden.de> <mailto:dhe at mms-dresden.de>  wrote:
>
>
>		Hi all,
>
>
>
>		for some special purposes I want to have an anonymous avatar
>to log in into
>		OpenSim (no rights, no inventar, will be deleted after log
>out). Is this
>		possible in general and are there any ambitions or somebody
>who has already
>		done that?
>
>
>
>		Best regards,
>
>		Daniel
>
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