That is outside the scope of OpenSim. It can be handled at the database level.
Melanie Sacha Magne wrote: > One question : > Will thoses servers allow duplication across physicals servers to allow > some kind of redundancies , ie one or several servers crashs won't impact > the grid ? > > Sacha > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Melanie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> After breaking my head over this for a few weeks, I believe I have >> figured out how to do this in a sane way. >> >> The fallacy was to assume that the login server and the user server >> would be one entity. That makes things overcomplicated and breaks >> the architecture all over the place. >> >> Now, here is what I have come up with: >> >> User Server: >> - Resolve name to key queries >> - Resolve key to name queries >> - Provide avatar picker lists >> - Manage home region data >> >> Authentication server >> - Create and manage authentication handles (string) and session keys >> (UUID) >> - Check passwords or other forms of authentication >> >> Login server >> - Provide the interface for the Linden viewer to log into a grid. >> Uses the services above, but doesn't contain them. >> >> Presence server >> - Manages last position data >> - Keeps list of logged in avatars and their locations >> >> Alongside with this, a new database is needed. This will not be an >> upgrade path, but a parallel development with a migration tool. >> >> Profile information has no place in this architecture and will be >> handled exclusively by the profiles module. >> >> The user table will specifically be designed to accommodate >> additional fields and allow getting/setting of such fields. >> >> With all user data, a scope identifier will be passed. This will be >> UUID.Zero in the most common case (Standalone or single grid) but >> will allow sharing of server processes between multiple logical grids. >> >> Comments are welcome. >> >> Melanie >> _______________________________________________ >> Opensim-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev >> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
