Auto register and auto login
 

We want to run vbulletin as a secure message board behind our extranet site, we currently use Netegrity siteminder for security. We need two things:

1. When a user goes from our secure site (non-php) to vbulletin, I want to auto login them into the message board by passing Vbulletin the login information via URL or cookie. Is this possible or does anyone know of a hack.

2. Along with the above, if a person is not registered already, I want to offer them a way to either auto register with information passed in a cookie or URL string or if that doesn't work, have them do a quick registration.

Any suggestions or links to hacks would be very helpful.

Thanks,
Chris

login by a url is always possible... not secure at all but possible... for the registration, simple... if you have cookies for your actual login process, the process can verify the cookie and create the user and login...

that process would be simple... the cookie have the username and password, so a simple modified version of the registration process can call the cookie infos and insert in the proper fields in a form, the user have simply to click "register" to proceed...

BUT...

nothing can be secure in that process because you can't provide a secure cookie - even if you set it to be coded...

nexialys,

Thanks for the update. Do you have any examples of doing a login via URL or the registration suggestion? Or can you send me any links on vbulletin.org, I searched and couldn't find any examples.

Chris

there is no example here i think... i suggested to show you what can be done... btw, i don't think a guy here would to the job for a demo, it takes time and have to learn your system before making something secure...

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