vb-Passport system, a Global User Database.

[fastlaneweb]

I don't mean to sound negative here or anything, But this seems nearly impossible. To create some kind of global vb user database. I am not a coder myself, but I have some general knowledge, and this vb-passport idea would be incredibly hard to put together. Good Luck though! I would be interested to see what you are able to come up with. Then you would have to get vb users to go on with the plan.

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[Gimp]

well sharing the same database would be hard atall, just a couple of modifications in the sessions code and some other stuff.. i shall post an update in this thread later

[filburt1]

06-24-03 at 04:05 PM Codename49 said this in Post #5
Actually this "vb-passport" idea was scrapped/

Not bad, either, because central database = central point of attack and failure.

[Freddie Bingham]

It hasn't been scrapped, just put on the back burner for now. It could still see the light of day.

[okrogius]

<a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showpost.php?p=470566&postcount=2" target="_blank">http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showp...66&postcount=2</a>

[forumdude]

How feasible do you guys think replicating information about users from one forum db to other forum db would be?

Could we use MySQL's replicate function to keep all the forums sync'd with the same user information (JUST the appropriate user information)? If not, could a shell script be written to do this?

I haven't looked at the vb3 db setup but I can't help but consider something simpler and local to the hardware.

Any ideas?

[insanctus]

The trouble I would see with this is simple. Unless it was made by vbulletin and coded in such as in a config file. userdatabase= :forumdatabase=

This hack would be worthless for those who plan to ever upgrade ever again.

It would be so intence that it could not be upgraded. Least IMO

[scsa20]

well... actually... this wouldn't be a bad idea... only, instead of automatically pulling the information across and all, you answer some questions like what's the forum URL you want to get your user name from, the user name you used on that forum and the password, along with some extra info to make sure that it's there account they're pulling over and it'll copy there information right over to the other person forum.

but, then again, this could be imposable (even tho, northing's imposable)

[auz1111]

any ideas on this! cross site users would be awesome!