Hack like the vB members area forum access section?

[rochen]

In the vB members area to get customer level access to here and vb.com you need to enter your user. I presume when this is done it simply moves your user from one forum group to another?

Does anyone know of a hack to do this? I want to have a page like in the vb members area where customers can enter their forum user name and it will move them from the "Registered" group to a "Customer" group. Thus granting them access to a customer only forum.

At the moment we have to do these changes manually via the vB admin cp, which consumes time. If we had the same system setup as in the vB members area, this would be resolved.

Thanks