[Opensim-users] Robust accepting registration requests from OpenSim.exe

[Justin Clark-Casey]

On 06/04/11 12:05, Tim Gildersleeve wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have done some searching but haven’t been able to find anything on this, I am sorry if I have missed something obvious.
>
> Back in 0.6 the grid servers required a send and receive key to authorise the region server to register with the grid
> server. I can’t see any obvious facility for this now in Robust. I run a small personal grid and recently moved it to
> another server with Robust and OpenSim.ini (with about 8 regions) running on that machine. I kept some regions that were
> not often used on my existing server and changed them to connect to the Robust server on the new machine. It all worked
> perfectly so that was good.. but it got me thinking. When I set my old server to register regions on the external robust
> server, all I had to do was point it to the address. I didn’t have to put in any key to sell the Robust server who I
> was. Apart from the security via obscurity of people not guessing the address of my Robust server, anyone could register
> any regions on this it seems.
>
> There must be more to it than this, what am I missing?

The keys were removed some time ago.  As far as I recall, the feeling was that it didn't provide meaningful security and 
there were no strong objections to their removal.

If you want to protect your robust server then you will need to do it via firewall settings.

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