how can vbulletin and apache share passwords

Question

We currently have a website that uses .htaccess to control access to some pages. We also have vBulletin running which uses a different set of credentials. What is the best way to tie these two together so they can use the same user name and password?

Answer 1

I wrote a vBulletin mod to take care of this. It updates a password file used by .htaccess. See http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?threadid=215949

Answer 2

I don't know whether the project is still active or whether the format that vBulletin hashes it's passwords will be suitable, but I have used a third-party Apache module under the name of "mod-auth-mysql" in the past, to integrate forum accounts with other web applications.

Answer 3

A possible solution is to use an LDAP. There are some vBulletin plugins that allow basic LDAP integration. Apache can also be configured to authenticate via an LDAP