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I am using this hack to control access to a vBulletin board (I also have vBHome installed). It works, but I have one big annoyance:

I get prompted twice for a login. When entering the site, I get the htaccess "style" prompt. Any username and login I use (that's registered on the vBulletin forum) works. But then I get redirected to the vBulletin "not registered" form. When I enter the same login/pass again, only then do I get redirected to the vBHome page.

Shouldn't the data in forms from the first "htaccess style" box be passed to authenticate with Vbulletin? Do I have to have the "browse board w. cookies" set to yes?

Here is another wrinkle: This forum is accessed largely by a group of computers in the same workplace. All of these computers have a login prompt at bootup, and most--if not all--of these computers are accessed with the SAME login and prompt (strange, I know....all the computers are shared). So, when user A logs on to a computer, under this common login, a cookie is set "common@forumsite.com". If user B logs into the forum from the SAME computer at a DIFFERENT TIME (remember, the user "common" is still logged into the computer, but has logged out of vBulletin), user B will still get the "htaccess style" prompt, log in with his unique vBulletin user/pass, and get welcomed to the vBulletin home as user A. Obviously user A's info is in the "common" cookie set on the computer.

Put another way: is it at all possible to have one, unified login (only one "htacess style" prompt) for many forum members (each with a unique vBulletin username/pass) on a single, shared computer, with one "common" computer login?

I'm probably doing something very stupid here....anyone got an idea?