Importing Unix users and passwords?

[ducasi]

Originally posted by Logician
Shape your new user db design so that it will use vb's default design from now on. It's always much more easier to adapt third party user database to use vbulletin user database instead of doing otherwise.. So convert your users/passwords to vb and from now on use vb database in your entire site.

Thanks for the reply....

Unfortunately this isn't a new user db design, this is a failry large department in a university dealing with hundreds of users and hundreds of computers, adding vb to allow a number of students to communicate with each other and with staff.

These users are managed through a single unix password file and that isn't going to change.

I reckon my best bet is to change the vb password encryption to be "crypt" and just feed the passwords into the mysql database behind vb's back.

Anyone else got ideas or suggestions?

Cheers!