[Opensim-users] Create a user with a specific UUID?

[Chris]

On 5/5/2011 7:34 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
> On 05/05/11 01:37, Chris wrote:
>> Hi all. I was wondering if there is anyway to create a new user with 
>> a specific UUID; aside from manually editing the
>> tables in MySQL after creating said users?
>>
>> I am preparing to upgrade to 0.7.1 shortly and I am starting over 
>> with a new database (will be restoring my data from
>> OARs and IARs) but I would like to keep the old UUIDs from my 
>> previous server (for scripting reasons that rely on
>> hardcoded avatar keys... Yes I know that this isn't the best way to 
>> script =) )
>>
>> If there is a way to do this please let me know. I would greatly 
>> appreciate it!
>
> Unfortunately, this isn't currently possible.
>
> In principle, it wouldn't be too hard to implement.  The "create user" 
> command could get an option --id switch or similar and pass that uuid 
> down to the UserAccountService.CreateUser() functions.  At the moment, 
> the UserAccount object creates a random uuid within itself, but this 
> could easily be replaced before account creation.
>
> There's already an "NDesk.Options" package that can parse command line 
> options that I'm using in the archiver core modules.
>

Ah okay. I was just wondering. It's not really a big deal since i've 
only got a very small handful of scripts that I wrote with hardcoded 
avatar keys; but  I was just curious =) Would be a useful function 
though I believe.