anyway to get vbulletin clear password?

[harty83]

I want to create a hook that will log in to a Joomla installation once vBulletin authenticates the user.

Joomla will use the same username and password as vBulletin.

However, without developing a plugin for Joomla that will use the md5 hash of the password to directly authenticate the user (rather than a clear form of the password hashed during authentication), I can't find an easy way to do this.

So my question, does vBulletin pass a clear version of the password that can be used programmatically?

Thanks!
Alan