Viewer remembering my name and displaying it in login screen.

[Derry Docherty]

When I startup SL the viewer remembers my name from the last time I logged in and displays it under "username". I share this PC with others and dont want them to know my username...How can I disable this feature..I have searched the knowledgebase without success. It probably is a silly question so please be patient. Thanks.

[Incoherendt Randt]

You're gonna hate this but i'll tell you anyway! There's no setting to get rid of the last user but you can get rid of it the hard way.

First you need to find the user_settings directory.  http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User_settings has steps to find that. In user_settings there's a file called bin_conf.dat, that is what holds the last username, the last password is in there too if you told it to remember. Delete that after you log out and the username won't be there on the next run.

Up a level from that, is all your user settings, and there's a directory with your username on it in there too. You lose all your settings if you erase that too, but that's the price for a super sekrit SL!

[Darren Scorpio]

Even if you manage to get rid of it as has been told above, anyone can still find your user names and even chat logs if you are saving those if you are sharing a PC. If you must share a PC why not have different users set up at the OS level? I mean that way all your personal stuff is safe anyway.

[Void Singer]

I remember this being a problem with autologin via the --login parameter in V2 and V1 set ups. it went away when you didn't use that or check "remember me"... V3 I'm not sure as I'm not using it.

if you set up different accounts on the computer and force people to use their own computer login, that should eliminate the problem as well (if users don't have permissions to view your settings folder they won't be able to see your name from the logs either)

 

and in general this is a better security setup since it also limits virus access to administration accounts.

[Erwin Solo]

You might run SL off a USB drive, or create a private hidden encrypted partition with http://www.truecrypt.org/ .  That would address the issues Darren mentioned.  You can take it as far as you like--even create a hidden bootable partition.  So your entire environment is yours alone when you boot from your private hidden encrypted partition.  This is not a physical disk-level partition.  Once you log into it, it then becomes a partition from your perspective. See http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=hidden-operating-system  and http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=hidden-volume .

[Nyll Bergbahn]

It's very simple but will take you an extra minute after you log out of the viewer.

Open the viewer again, clear your name then type in any made up first name, leave the password box empty and click log in. The viewer will not of course be able to log in so once it says it can't close the viewer. If anyone opens the viewer after that, it will show the made up name and not your avatar name. When you want to login again, just clear the made up name and type your own.

Edit: If you are using a viewer 1 based client, you will have to make up first and last names.