[Opensim-users] Is the user name the only information used to lock content permissions in opensim?

[Justin Clark-Casey]

There is a save oar option, --home=<url> where one can insert Hypergrid still creator information that will get 
preserved when loaded to another grid even if the user does not exist there.

However, I've practically never used this option so I can't say for sure that it still works.

One can do this with creator since the field is relatively free form and not used programatically in any significant 
way.  The owner field is a completely different matter (it's used in permissions, for instance) and one can't insert 
arbitrary data here without a lot of internal and SL protocol changes.

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

On 11/02/15 07:22, Unadecal Arado wrote:
> Content saved to an OAR maintains its its creator information and permissions only if it is restored to the same grid
> where the creator information exists. If the OAR is restored to a different grid, where the creator does not exist (as
> in the uuid, not the name), the sim owner would automatically become "creator" and "owner" of all the content in the OAR
> and all previous permission restrictions would be lost. Since everything is referenced by uuid, having multiple accounts
> in different grids with the same name would not solve this issue. Restoring the OAR onto a standalone, local simulator
> would have the same effect of stripping all previous owner and permissions information.
>
> On 11 February 2015 at 01:12, Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at googlemail.com <mailto:jjustincc at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>     In the sense that there is no technical limitation to further copying that is correct.  One would have to rely on
>     other means to restrict copying (contracts, DMCA, perhaps watermarking, etc.)
>
>     On 11/02/15 01:08, Dr Ramesh Ramloll wrote:
>
>         Hi Justin,
>         Does this then mean that distributing oars with proprietary content not meant to be distributed freely is not
>         possible?
>         Thanks
>         Ramesh
>
>         On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at googlemail.com <mailto:jjustincc at googlemail.com>
>         <mailto:jjustincc at googlemail.__com <mailto:jjustincc at googlemail.com>>> wrote:
>
>              When an OAR is saved and loaded into a new sim all owner permissions are kept identical - the next
>         permissions do
>              not come into play, these only apply when you transfer objects within a simulator.
>
>              On loading into a sim, if the owner UUID of those objects matches an existing sim user, they will become
>         the owner
>              and have the same permissions as before.  If no such user exists, the ownership defaults to the estate
>         owner who
>              will then effectively get the owner permissions.
>
>
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