Until URU Setup Question.

[Atrion]

I was reading up on how to set up a Until URU shard on a few different sites, but some of them mentioned something about needing to have a "Cyan Until Uru Authorization Key". What is this? Is it something that is still needed? If so How does one go about getting this?

Sorry for my ignorance on this topic, but doing a Google search doesn't seem to be bringing me much in the way of results for this.

[kaelisebonrai]

You'd probably be better off running an alcugs shard, to be honest.

You can't get a Cyan Until Uru Authorization Key anymore, anyways.

Alcugs would be at http://alcugs.almlys.org/ .

If you just want to convert a Complete Chronicles client to an Until Uru client, then, http://guildofartisans.org might have something for you, somewhere.

Actual Until Uru servers, dunno about that one, once wanted to go down that road, never ended up doing it.

[Dhelayan]

It IS still possible to run them, without any kind of invitation Key, but i agree with kaelis, Alcugs is a lot better..

[Atrion]

From all I have read and experienced Alcugs Does seem like the better idea, but this is more about doing it for the sake of doing it kinda thing. I want to find out how and do it. I plan on doing the same with the Alcugs server as well.

[diafero]

Just for reference, the Alcugs installation instructions are at http://alcugs.almlys.org/AlcugsInstall

The problem with UU servers is that they sent requests to a server run by Cyan to check whether a player is allowed to log in - and that server does not exist anymore. The protocol is quite simple, but I don't know of an alternative implementation. You could try downloading the old unet3 Alcugs sources, they contain an auth server which in turn requests users from Cyan's server - so you can see how the protocol works. Then you would need to write the authentication server based on this information and redirect the requests to that server instead of the Cyan one.
Sorry, but nobody said it was going to be easy

[Atrion]

I know people might not be able to say who it is, but are there currently any UntilURU servers being run or are all the ones currently being run all TPOTS/CC on Alcugs?

[diafero]

I am quite sure there are UU servers. They might use the solution I outlined above - or they managed to patch the Plasma auth server not to forward requests anymore.

[Nadnerb]

A (long) while back someone patched the AuthServer executable... and it's already been linked to in this thread. The guildofartisans/uu directory contains the patched AuthServer.

[D'Lanor]

The guildofartisans/uu directory contains the patched AuthServer.

Err... nope. I did a diff and this appears to be Cyan's original 0.38.10 release from 2004.

[kaelisebonrai]

Blast. That means I have the wrong version on there. If anyone still has it, then, I'll fix that slight oversight.