Use External Login

[rlarner]

I am trying to integrate vBulletin into existing website, replacing phpbb2. I'd have a requirement to use our existing login to authenticate users into vBulletin as well, but I'd prefer to do this creation lazily rather than have to go through all the existing users and create vBulletin accounts for them.

I've tried adding code to includes/init.php to check for an externally authenticated user. If it finds one I look up that userid in the vb_user table - if it's not there I create one. Once this process is complete I create a session for the user and set cookies.

The problem I'm having is that this session doesn't appear to be valid to the router code. It ends up creating a new session and treating the customer as a visitor.

First question is: am I on the right track?

Second question: what am I missing?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Rosco