Can I integrate a company's user authentication API with vBulletin?

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  • jorisw
    New Member
    • Mar 2013
    • 1
    • 5.0.0

    Can I integrate a company's user authentication API with vBulletin?

    Hi,

    We are looking for forum software that will allow us to, at not too high maintenance, create a single sign-on between vBulletin and our internal user authentication API, with the latter as the dominant authentication layer.

    Does vBulletin allow for easy integration like this? For instance, could we develop a plug-in that replaces vBulletin's user layer with ours?


    TIA.
  • Trevor Hannant
    vBulletin Support
    • Aug 2002
    • 24326
    • 5.7.X

    #2
    Yes, there are specific APIs and Data Managers that you can use to do this. As a license owner, you will have access to all code to customise as you need however please note that we don't provide support for custom code or from any issues arising from it.
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    • BirdOPrey5
      Senior Member
      • Jul 2008
      • 9613
      • 5.6.3

      #3
      While possible I've never seen anyone successfully override the vBulletin- usually in any bridge I've seen the VB system is dominant. This will not be a trivial matter.

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      • feldon23
        Senior Member
        • Nov 2001
        • 11291
        • 3.7.x

        #4
        Originally posted by Steve Machol
        Integrating vBulletin with a non-vB member system would require a rather extensive modification of the code. Of course, we cannot provide official support for code modifications. What most people do is modify their current system to use the vB member system.

        Either way the place for help with this would be over at the mod site: https://www.vbulletin.org
        12 years later...

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        • BirdOPrey5
          Senior Member
          • Jul 2008
          • 9613
          • 5.6.3

          #5
          It has never been a goal of vBulletin to make it easier for people to bypass our login/security system, and I doubt it ever will be.

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          • feldon23
            Senior Member
            • Nov 2001
            • 11291
            • 3.7.x

            #6
            Originally posted by Joe D.
            It has never been a goal of vBulletin to integrate with existing systems like OpenID, OAuth, Microsoft's ActiveDirectory, or any other modern open user authentication standard.
            FIFY

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            • Anthony Marguccio
              New Member
              • Apr 2013
              • 3
              • 4.1.x

              #7
              I was able to piece together enough information from vbulletin.org to integrate my site with MS Active Directory using a custom plugin that performed LDAP queries of AD. Single sign on was difficult because you have to hijack the vBulletin authentication system and make it issue the right cookies. It was possible on vB3 and vB4... It certainly wasn't easy and I have no idea if my approach will work in vB5!

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