Forum Password Hack (request)

I need a hack to allow private forums to have a single password to be able to get in to the forum to both view and post in it. I'm upgrading from UBB which has this feature and this feature is the only thing preventing me from upgrading.

I've search through the forums here and found other people requesting it, but no solution was ever given, just people saying it's obsolete... which it's not. It's another way to have a private forum set up.

Thanks!

[nuno]

Wayne:
will this feature be available in next vBull version?
could you make it to look like access masks plus forum password?
like

PHP Code:

if user loggedin and $privateforum==1 {
eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate('passwordrequired')."\");");
}
else {
eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate('error_nopermission+passwordrequired')."\");");
} 


tx