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1 | We don need no stinkin' accounts. | ||
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3 | We don't really need accounts, so we can do away with them. Though | ||
4 | obviously since SledjHamr is designed to be a flexible set of tools | ||
5 | rather than one big take it or leave it system, people can use what ever | ||
6 | accounts system they need for their purposes. SledjHamr not only doesn't | ||
7 | impose an accounts system, we eliminate the need for one in the general | ||
8 | case. So we don't have to write one. B-) | ||
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10 | When a user fires up the extantz client for the first time, it can use | ||
11 | their local computer account name as the users name (I think most | ||
12 | operating systems make you create one when you install them). Extantz | ||
13 | could also do a reverse DNS lookup on the computers IP, and likely end | ||
14 | up with an ISPs dynamic IP reverse mapping, or maybe a real domain name. | ||
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16 | Extantz then tries to connect to a love server running on the same | ||
17 | computer, or starts one if it can't find one. This local love server by | ||
18 | default runs a small grid, with maybe a nice little cottage, and a star | ||
19 | gate. This is the users home, they can do what ever they like with it. | ||
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21 | The star gate works similar to current OpenSim hypergates, linking to | ||
22 | external grids and allowing HyperGrid access to them. Since the user | ||
23 | already has a local name and domain name, with the local love server | ||
24 | acting as the users home HyperGrid server, they are good to go visit | ||
25 | other grids. No real in world account need ever be created. | ||
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27 | The drawback is that the virtual worlds will be filled with lots of | ||
28 | root@123_231.bigisp-dyn.com users. Naturally it should be simple for | ||
29 | users to change the default name to anything they want. | ||