[Opensim-users] user authentication and deletion

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Paul Fishwick wrote:
> I am testing on Ubuntu Linux, OpenSim r7840, and wanted to check that
> I was performing the right actions:
> 
> 1) "Test User" was the default user on login, so I created another user with
>     "create user" in the OpenSim console. However when using sqlite3 from
>     the shell, or using the Firefox sqlite plugin, the only user shown when
>     opening database "userprofiles.db" and querying
>     "select * from users" is "Test User", not the other one. I can log 
> in with the
>     other one fine, so it must be storing it somewhere. Any idea where?

Should be there.  Seems to be working right now.

> 
> 2) I tried resetting the password for Test User using "reset user password"
>     at the OpenSim console, but this fails because relogging-in as Test User
>     uses the old password "test", not the new one. has anyone else 
> noticed this?

Ah, now this actually was broken.  This is fixed in r7862.

> 
> 3) What is the preferred method of deleting a user? I guess if I can get (1)
>      above working, I can use Sqlite to remove the row in userprofiles.db or
>      or wherever the user info is stored?

At the moment I believe it has to be done in sql.  I think an explicit console command for this would be useful, though 
really I think that it should delete that user's inventory entries in grid mode as well (which makes it much less 
trivial to implement).

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