Re: FN-FORUM: Looking for a forum / bulletin board that lets me use a pre-defined user/password list

date posted 26th January 2007 15:24

David,

Most forums aren't very complex, and use simple authentication.
Usually a users table with a username, password, default permissions
and a password which is md5 hashed.

It should be trivial to write your own user import script for
vBulletin, just install it, create a new user and then copy the
default permissions just substituting the username and password fields
for the ones you want to use.

Most forums will also allow you to specify who can access which
sections. My forum of choice is vBulletin, however it's not free.

Cheers,
Rich.

On 26 Jan 2007 12:26:39 -0000, [EMAIL REMOVED]
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Morning
>
> Been looking for ages for a simple forum that:
>
> - lets me use a list of user / passes that I already have (either in a SQL
> table or via LDAP connection/lookup)
>
> - lets me have a number of different sections, and control who is allowed
> into each section (again, I already have this data)
>
> - PHP / MySQL for preference
>
> There's a load of forums out there, but none that I can find that provide
> *easy* external authentication. There seems to be lots of calls for it, and
> lots of half-way kludges but nothing that's already done (am I wrong - I
> hope I am).
>
> I can code one up form scratch, but it seems to be silly to re-invent the
> wheel.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> David.
>
>
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