Intesting FTP server idea

Why not link the user accounts on the forum to the FTP server. This will take care of leaks and having to change the login info all of the time. It will also make people more accountable as people who try to leach the whole server could be banned temporarily etc. Things dont seem to be too problematic this days but still I dont see why nobody has written some sort of web interface to make the ftp user database cross reference with the forum. Maybe thats too much work to be worth it though.

Snatch

[JMI]

Hm. Well Duh!

Perhaps you haven't noticed that the FTP "username" IS directly linked to the useraccounts on the Forum. Aaron can now track which forum user's account is accessing the FTP and determine whether that "useraccount" appears to be being abused.

Regards,

[goggles99]

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.

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)