From 7341af59640b65d409a09bec1ff891bd9e40b8ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Walter Seikel Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:24:40 +1000 Subject: Shift some docs around, and link to them. --- docs/no_accounts.txt | 29 ----------------------------- 1 file changed, 29 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 docs/no_accounts.txt (limited to 'docs/no_accounts.txt') diff --git a/docs/no_accounts.txt b/docs/no_accounts.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5ecbe08..0000000 --- a/docs/no_accounts.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ -We don need no stinkin' accounts. - -We don't really need accounts, so we can do away with them. Though -obviously since SledjHamr is designed to be a flexible set of tools -rather than one big take it or leave it system, people can use what ever -accounts system they need for their purposes. SledjHamr not only doesn't -impose an accounts system, we eliminate the need for one in the general -case. So we don't have to write one. B-) - -When a user fires up the extantz client for the first time, it can use -their local computer account name as the users name (I think most -operating systems make you create one when you install them). Extantz -could also do a reverse DNS lookup on the computers IP, and likely end -up with an ISPs dynamic IP reverse mapping, or maybe a real domain name. - -Extantz then tries to connect to a love server running on the same -computer, or starts one if it can't find one. This local love server by -default runs a small grid, with maybe a nice little cottage, and a star -gate. This is the users home, they can do what ever they like with it. - -The star gate works similar to current OpenSim hypergates, linking to -external grids and allowing HyperGrid access to them. Since the user -already has a local name and domain name, with the local love server -acting as the users home HyperGrid server, they are good to go visit -other grids. No real in world account need ever be created. - -The drawback is that the virtual worlds will be filled with lots of -root@123_231.bigisp-dyn.com users. Naturally it should be simple for -users to change the default name to anything they want. -- cgit v1.1