[Opensim-dev] Heads up on permissions

[Diva Canto]

hi all,

Today we added a mechanism that allows owners of publicly accessible 
parcels with build restrictions to allow certain users to build there -- 
without having to deed the parcel to a group and even without having to 
put a groups feature in place.

The corresponding config variable is called simple_build_permissions, 
and when that's on, it works like this:

Consider a public parcel, i.e. "Allow Public Access" checked. The owner 
of the land restricts object creation in the Options (so, no build). 
Then the owner can add users to the "Allowed Residents" list. The 
combination of Public Access + Allowed Residents means "when build is 
restricted, these people can build here".

Very simple, no groups necessary, no deeds.

This is extremely useful for me, I hope it will be useful to others.

This is in 0.7.4-dev code and I also ported it to the branch that will 
generate 0.7.3.1.

Diva