[Opensim-users] Banning

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Since I couldn't find a page on the login level originally I knocked up a quick one at [1].  This is for general access 
control so could eventually detail the in-world estate management tools, as well as where external blocking (e.g. on the 
firewall) is necessary.

[1] http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Access_Control

On 19/02/13 03:04, InuYasha Meiji wrote:
> I haven't a suggestion on which program scans IP and MAC addresses , but I suppose, if a griefer  gets really bad, you
> could use an IP and mac address scanner, to then ban the mac address from your router.  That would then keep those MAC
> addressess from connecting to your network at all.  This might be a way to perma ban people from that particular machine.
>
> InuYasha
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> On 2/18/2013 7:56 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
>> On 18/02/13 23:26, ssm2017 wrote:
>>> actually, to ban a user, im using the "userLevel" field in the "UserAccounts" grid table and then i set it to -1.
>>> the grid "loginlevel" is set to 0.
>>> this is not "officially recommended/supported" but it is actually working and not preventing the user to use hypergrid.
>>
>> I thought this was the standard way of doing it, though admittedly it has not been documented!
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>> However, I'm not sure that ban mechanism would work for incoming HG users.  I'm not sure what the control tools are
>> here right now - I think one might have to block specific IPs on the firewall.
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>>> 2013/2/18 Sarge Misfit <fubat.enterprises at gmail.com <mailto:fubat.enterprises at gmail.com>>
>>>
>>>     The subject of griefers came up in a recent conversation. One thing that none of us knows is how to ban them from an
>>>     entire grid.
>>>
>>>     So, how DO you ban someone from a grid?
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