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Lex Neva added a comment - 02/Aug/08 11:35 AM
Well, I wouldn't want someone to be able to name themself "Lex Neva" on an external grid, and then teleport into the main grid as me... Aren't there security/authentication issues here?
The use of adding _External to Lastname is something the OpenSim patch does.
...BUT.... there is an issue with doing it because it's using the same UUID that the undecorated Lastname on the Linden grid. So, when the agent logs in to the Linden grid (or TPs back there) after getting _External added to Lastname, all of the various caches in the client can get confused. I think the viewer caches tend to do lookups by UUID, so when they look up the UUID for Pixel Gausman in the viewer cache, it can still have _EXTERNAL appended to Lastname. That's my theory, and I'm sticking to it. This can also affect the viewer when it connects to Agni after TP to OpenSim from the Linden grid. AWG Question: Is appending _External to Lastname is somewhat of a bandaid? Should we have some other way to denote that an avatar was not locally authenticated? Appending _External is also added to ensure that name clashes don't occur with locally authenticated agents. For instance, it's possible that Joe Smith authenticates locally on an OpenSim instance, and an agent domain authenticated agent also named Joe Smith shows up on a sim. In the viewer this boils down to: Can an OpenSim instance muck with a name, it doesn't seem right that it can. The agent domain needs to control the name and how it is displayed. It sure messes up all the caches in the viewer to have it operate this way. Does clearing cache fix this?
Clearing the cache fixed it for me.
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OGP Beta: Avatar names in viewer still display "_EXTERNAL" extension once avatars have teleported back to LL grid after being on an OpenSim region
