Automatically Logging a user in

[JBankson]

We have a website where our users sign up for membership. In doing so we are creating their V-Bulletin users automatically behind the scenes so that they do not have to register for our site AND register for the forums. What would be really nice is when the user logs in to our membership area if we could automatically log them in for V-Bulletin as well so that if they visit that area it is seemless. Right now they would have to login twice, once for the members only area and once to login to V-bulletin.

Is there a way to set the cookie that v-bulletin expects? Or is it possible to call a method that will log the user in (kind of like how we create the user)?

Thanks!