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John,<BR>
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> * The distributed asset server project (http://forge.opensimulator.org/gf/project/assetserver/) has turned into the distributed grid services project. The asset server is almost at the same functionality as OpenSim.Grid.AssetServer.exe<BR>
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Excellent work, really cool that you're working on this!<BR><BR>
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> (it cannot create the MySQL database from scratch, but everything else seems to be in order), <BR>
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I would argue that this is probably another reason to try to expand on the existing backend infrastructure - try to better what's already in the data layer so we don't end up with yet another set of DB services.<BR>
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> inventory functionality has been merged into the asset server,<BR>
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That sounds a bit worrisome to me; not knowing the specifics, I'd like to hear a bit more about why?<BR>
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> and a user server project has been started to provide distributed authentication for the other services.<BR><BR>
Excellent.<BR>
<BR>> * Inventory support only has a file-system backend currently, a MySQL database backend that is compatible with the existing OpenSim.Grid.InventoryServer.exe backend is on the short term roadmap.<BR><BR>
Again, work towards integrating with what's already there - meet in the code, not in the db?<BR>
<BR>> * Login with the new user server is functional. There are still a lot of XML-RPC calls to implement, which will happen right after the distributed authentication is tested.<BR><BR>
Cool++ - I guess same things goes for the user server as for the asset servers - build on what's there? A lot of peple have come to use the console to administrate their services, the db interfaces should ideally be the same, and the legacy protocols.<BR>
<BR>> * LDAP login is working. Since the LL viewer cannot easily support direct LDAP logins (it MD5 hashes the password before sending it), a simple web interface was added at /ldap that, upon login, will create a new avatar with your LDAP first name, last name, and hash of your current password. This could be merged into a larger account creation interface.<BR><BR>
I love it. Have you started thinkking about an authentication plug-in architecture for these schemes?<BR>
<BR>/Stefan<BR>
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