[Opensim-users] [Opensim-dev] Grid <-> Authentication Service

[Diva Canto]

Very cute! Congratulations! I like the shadow of the avatar -- of course 
avatars must have shadows!!! I'm not sure I identify with the default 
blond scandinavian-looking Ruth, though... :-)
I tested it both in LL and in my OpenSims. A few bugs here and there, 
but this looks promising!

I'm not so worried about compatibility with Linden Lab's servers, but 
I'd like all of this to be one coherent story within OpenSim. So if your 
viewer is not 100% compatible with *OpenSim*, and assumes unofficial 
extensions to the servers, this is not gonna work.

Jani Pirkola wrote:
> Dear Diva,
>
> I am realXtend project manager and we have just started to contribute 
> code to OpenSim project. One of our key sw components aim to this kind 
> of authentication and cross-grid functionality. We will make a release 
> of all of our sw components, including user authentication, at the end 
> of this month. These components will appear to OpenSim svn even before 
> that.
>
> Only drawback is that our approach is not (at least yet) 
> SL-compatible. We have also developed our own viewer based on SL 
> Viewer, but with many enhancements. You might want to check our web 
> site, which was just opened few hours ago: http://www.realxtend.org.
>
> Jani Pirkola
>
>
> 2008/2/15, Diva Canto <diva at metaverseink.com 
> <mailto:diva at metaverseink.com>>:
>
>     dr scofield wrote:
>     > that makes it rather easy for any of your UCI users to log in as any
>     > other UCI user. if that's what you want, fine. were i a UCI
>     user, i'd
>     > not like that...
>     >
>     > if you were planning on using the password field as well, that is
>     > going to require some additional code at the UCI authentication
>     > service side as the password is not being send in the clear by as a
>     > salted MD5 hash, so you'd have to generate those for all your
>     UCI users.
>     >
>     >    cheers,
>     >    dirk
>     >
>     >
>
>     We will use passwords, of course, that's how authentications get done
>     these days. We'll have to figure out how to handle the MD5 hash if the
>     campus authentication service doesn't do it. Of course, better
>     would be
>     if the credentials were entered at the site of the authentication
>     service, which is how this usually works on the web: you want to login
>     to your grades -> you're first redirected to the authentication
>     service
>     -> you come back to the grades system.
>
>     In any case, what I really want is to let everyone in, UCI and
>     non-UCI,
>     and properly ACL things -- just like what happens on the web. OpenSim
>     still doesn't have permissions, so that probably won't be done
>     now. But
>     when it has permissions, that's what we will want. This whole idea of
>     having un-interoperable domains of users, each grid with its own
>     domain,
>     is not going to scale to the kinds of things universities want to do
>     with virtual worlds; it's a major step *back* from what we got
>     accustomed with the Web. We want interoperable ID domains,
>     interoperable
>     inventory (storage) domains, gridless and intergrid sim-to-sim TPs,
>     external exposure of data for search engines, and all kinds of
>     good old
>     web openness, properly ACLed -- that's very clear.
>
>
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