How to tell an object's true owner?

[Lindal Kidd]

Several times, I've encountered griefer objects that pretend to be owned by someone other than the griefer.  I've even had some claim they were MY objects.  Is there any way to tell an object's true owner?

[Charolotte Caxton]

/you mean other than right clicking and viewing object profile, right?/

[Kolby Nissondorf]

Theres only one way to tell an objects owner. Right click>Edit and check owner..

[Cerise Sorbet]

right-click>edit could be the problem, especially if the viewer is older. There are some very old "caching" kinds of bugs with the edit floater, old values were not flushed when the fields were populated with a new object's details. I have not seen that problem happen with the 2.x inspector, the edit window could still have that bug but it is not needed for the grief kind of situation.

I am sure that 1.x viewers could be patched not to do that if somebody wanted. LL added a fix once for the editor group display, so there should be a pattern to see there that can be copied to the owner etc. fields.

 

[Charolotte Caxton]

With all due respect to Kolby, if the item is no mod you can not choose edit after a right click, but you can choose object profile which will tell you the objects creator and owner.

[RoudyRaccoon Hand]

If you are able to fetch the UUID of said object, using the following can help:

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        list info = llGetObjectDetails(uuidHere,[OBJECT_OWNER]);
        llOwnerSay((string)llList2String(info,0));
    }
}

 

However alot of clients support the ability to click on the name of the object (which is most of the time a link to the profile of the owner)

 

Another way of doing it, is if it is a chat spammer, is to set up a listener on Channel 0, using listen()'s built in key id, will return the objects UUID automaticly, see below.

 

key uuid;

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llListen(0,"","","");
        
    }
    listen(integer chan, string objectName, key objectKey, string msg)
    {
        uuid = objectKey;
        list info = llGetObjectDetails(uuid,[OBJECT_OWNER]);
        llOwnerSay((string)llKey2Name(llList2String(info,0)) + "  Said: " + (string)msg);
    }
}

 

^^Copy and paste that into an object, anything sent over channel 0 will display the message and who sent it.