[Opensim-dev] Coming up: region access control

BlueWall jamesh at bluewallgroup.com
Sun Mar 18 21:28:42 UTC 2012


Nice. Also testing the email lists :)

On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 14:26 -0700, Diva Canto wrote:
> Unless you implemented your own authorization service, the 
> RemoteAuthorizationServicesConnector does absolutely nothing.
> 
> On 3/17/2012 11:12 AM, Argus wrote:
> > Hi Diva
> >
> >  Interessting new settings which i could use....
> >
> >  I see in the GridCommon.ini that you added AuthorizationServices = 
> > "LocalAuthorizationServicesConnector". I am already using the 
> > "RemoteAuthorizationServicesConnector" in a few other projects. Taking 
> > a glance at the code both will not work together, right?
> >
> > Michelle
> >
> >
> > Am 17.03.2012 18:15, schrieb Diva Canto:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I just committed a piece of code that performs access control in more 
> >> ways than what is currently expressable by viewers. Specifically, it 
> >> allows region operators to specify things like
> >> DisallowForeigners -- what it says
> >> DisallowResidents -- only admins and managers allowed in the region
> >>
> >> This is on a per-region basis, so you can have a simulator with 
> >> several regions, each one ruled by a different policy.
> >>
> >> If there are other policies that make sense, please let me know. 
> >> Also, DisallowResidents may be redundant with groups in place. But as 
> >> far as I can see, without a groups service in place, there is no way 
> >> to express that kind of access control, and I think that kind of 
> >> control is important.
> >>
> >> This is the beginning of supporting rich access control policies in a 
> >> federation scenario.
> >>
> >> http://opensimulator.org/viewgit/?a=commit&p=opensim&h=33c14cb107ecb67a3e971d6adaab17d173d52747 
> >>
> >>
> >> Feedback welcome.
> >>
> >> Diva
> >>
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