[websissy]

I'm having a similar problem here. The external module I'm trying to hook in supplies a Perl program to do this with almost any mySQL database. It works with vB3 all the way up to the password verification step; but fails there due to the new hashing.

I think I can offer some helpful information on the salt issue and perhaps in return you can give me the Perl Code to handle the password encryption? The deal with the salt value is that it's STORED as part of each vB3 user's member database record. If you do a describe on the vb3_user table, you'll find the salt value is the last field in each row. So you don't really NEED to create a salt value. All you need to do is grab the user's salt value from each member's record and append it to the original MD5 encrypted password before you do the second MD5 encryption.

Hopefully, that will help you out. My problem is I can't figure out how to code that double-MD5 encryption in Perl!

Good Luck! Please drop me a PM if you can help me on the Perl encryption bit!