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Old 01-27-2005, 04:52
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interesting idea... however it may be a little more difficult than you think.

(correct me if I am wrong)
vBulletin only stores salted md5 hashes of passwords, not the actual passwords themselves. So your ftp server must be able to hash and salt your password before comparison.

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Originally Posted by vBulletin
the purpose of the salting of md5 hashes is to make sure the password is unique per forum. Say that a forum backup got obtained by someone who shouldn't they could brute force the hash password if its not salted or edit their cookie and put in the hash to login.
This makes things a little more complicated...
It is still possible however. Any vBulletin script coders here? (I'm sure there is)
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