[sldev] RFC: design proposal for VWR-1071

[Ambrosia]

A note here,

I strongly, -strongly- suggest against reading and storing the alt
information in the normal custom user settings.

Remember, any options that any other client one might use does not
know about get removed from the custom settings.xml, on start of said
client.

Simply store the alt account information, with the passwords encrypted
in some manner, in a new alt_info.xml that gets stored in
SecondLife/user_settings.

The client has excellent functions to read and write this data, and
you can then also make backups of this specific file for other
computers with the same featuure supporting client. Also, the
information would not be overwritten by using other clients that do
not support it.

When it comes to non-printable characters in the binary encoding of
the stored passwords, well, there are alternatives to that encoding
that allow storage in an ascii-safe matter.

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 13:15, Argent
Stonecutter<secret.argent at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wouldn't the per-account information (like the password) go in the per-
> account settings files?
>
> And after reading more of this thread, I'm inclined to prefer a
> separate user interface element to select the user name, not part of
> either user entry box, possibly even in the menu bar.
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