[Opensim-dev] Remove check for IsGod in some OSSL functions

[Fleep Tuque]

I'm not thinking of this issue just in the context of a personal grid. In
addition to FleepGrid, I also run and manage the grid for my university and
I've worked on a zillion enterprise projects besides, so I understand that
enterprise needs are very different than private or personal grids.

But even in an enterprise context, I can't think of a use case when I would
not expect the Estate Owner to have the permissions of an Estate Manager.
In my understanding, Estate Owner is a superset of Estate Manager.  That
is, not all Estate Managers are Estate Owners, but all Estate Owners are
Estate Managers.  It sounds like you're saying at the code level in Opensim
that is NOT the case.. ?

If so that's news to me and unexpected behavior..

- Chris/Fleep

Chris M. Collins (SL/OS: Fleep Tuque)
Center for Simulations & Virtual Environments Research (UCSIM)
UCIT Instructional & Research Computing
University of Cincinnati
406A Zimmer Hall
315 College Drive
PO BOX 210088
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0088
chris.collins at uc.edu
(513) 556-3018

http://ucsim.uc.edu



On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Melanie <melanie at t-data.com> wrote:

> I can't name an EXISTING case in SL, but there is a use for it in
> other grids. The mainland owner is, by necessity, a "role account"
> that is used by multiple staff persons. Since the "governor linden"
> UUID is hardcoded in the viewer, there is no choice but to have such
> a role account.
>
> You do not necessarily want that role account, which may be open for
> use by staff who can't be trusted with advanced scripting, to be
> able to execute all and sundry functions.
>
> Please step back from the "privately owned simulator" concept for a
> moment and also consider the requirements of security and
> compartmentalization in a company running a grid. OpenSim attempts
> to cater to both these groups and therefore completely removing
> options companies can use in order to make things a little simpler
> for hobbyists is not what OpenSim is about. We have thousands of
> options just because we try to allow any possible use case.
>
> Melanie
>
> On 13/04/2012 15:59, Fleep Tuque wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Melanie <melanie at t-data.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> This allows for finer grained control. Please understand that estate
> >> owners may be significantly different from estate managers, for
> >> instance in the case of a mainland.
> >
> >
> > Hmm, even in the case of mainland in Second Life, the Estate Owner
> (Guvnor
> > Linden) has access to same permissions as Estate Managers.  Can you
> > describe a use case where the Estate Owner can't do something an Estate
> > Manager can?  I really can't think of any..
> >
> > - Chris/Fleep
> >
> > Chris M. Collins (SL/OS: Fleep Tuque)
> > Center for Simulations & Virtual Environments Research (UCSIM)
> > UCIT Instructional & Research Computing
> > University of Cincinnati
> > 406A Zimmer Hall
> > 315 College Drive
> > PO BOX 210088
> > Cincinnati, OH 45221-0088
> > chris.collins at uc.edu
> > (513) 556-3018
> >
> > http://ucsim.uc.edu
> >
> >
> >
> >
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