vBulletin User Registration Rules

[ozancigiz]

Hello,

I am using the Datamanager Create User API in order to create users in my vBulletin forum as soon as the user registers to my own website.

However, the registration rules at my website and vBulletin forum are different. The differences are:

1- vBulletin does not accept password that is the same as the username
2- usernames less than 3 characters and longer than 25 characters are not accepted
3- Same email address is used 2-3 times by different users

I can change my rules to suit vbulletin rules, however there are a total of 13,000 users at my website, and some of them use their username as their password for example.

How can I get around this problem? How can I have vBulletin not check for these rules?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

1. From a security P.O.V. it is very bad to have the same password as the username. But i don't think this should be a problem, as you are only talking about new registrations.
2. Again, as you only talk about new registrations, this should not be a problem.
3. Again, no problem for new registrations. Also using the same email address multiple times could cause problems (like password recovery, for which account the password should be mailed if the email is not unique). But this can be turned off at:

AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> User Registration Options -> Require Unique Email Addresses: No