Single-Sign-On

[tinscrew]

Greetings,

I am not a licensed user so I apologize in advance for not putting this in, request for services forum.

I am looking to integrate VBulletin with my Universitie's Learning Management System software package to allow for single-sign-on access to vbulletin. I am not that technical so take it easy on me please.

I was thinking something along the lines of my system will automatically generate a link in the "classroom". Clicking on this link could execute a local .cgi that will send the something like this to vbulletin to auto register someone into the board.

<form name=\"form\" action=\"https://some_url/vbulletin.cgi\" method=\"post\">
<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"loginID\" value=\"$username\">
<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"loginpwd\" value=\"$password\">
<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"category\" value=\"$category\"> </form>

Are there any APIs already written to handle a single-sign-on handoff like this? Has anyone done something similar?

Comments / questions / concerns / help / etc welcome. I am looking to accomplish this as soon as possible.

Thank you kindly in advance for your guidance.