--- forum_login.php.old 2005-08-29 15:19:14.000000000 -0500
+++ forum_login.php     2005-08-29 15:15:02.000000000 -0500
@@ -39,6 +39,21 @@

 function external_get_user_by_auth($login,$passwd)
 {
+       /* load forum config */
+       $data = file_get_contents($GLOBALS['PATH_TO_FUD_FORUM_GLOBALS_PHP']);
+       eval(str_replace('<?php', '', substr_replace($data, '', strpos($data, 'require'))));
+
+       /* db.inc needs certain vars inside the global scope to work, so we export them */
+       foreach (array('FUD_OPT_1', 'DBHOST', 'DBHOST_USER', 'DBHOST_PASSWORD', 'DBHOST_DBNAME', 'DATA_DIR') as $v) {
+               $GLOBALS[$v] = $$v;
+       }
+
+        if (!$GLOBALS['PATH_TO_FUD_FORUM_DB_INC']) {
+                require_once $GLOBALS['DATA_DIR'] . 'include/theme/default/db.inc';
+        } else {
+                require_once $GLOBALS['PATH_TO_FUD_FORUM_DB_INC'];
+        }
+
        return q_singleval("SELECT id FROM ".$DBHOST_TBL_PREFIX."users WHERE login='".addslashes($login)."' AND passwd='".md5($passwd)."'");
 }