title: XenForo Login Authentication
body: <p>I'm working on a 3rd party application, and I need to make a stand alone login authentication. I don't want to setup a session or create any local data vars of the sort, I just want to check the username/password for a match. The issue standing is that the XF authentication system doesn't make much sense to me. I've looked around the official XF website, but I haven't gathered much. I understand that password/salt data is stored in the <code>xf_user_authentication</code> table, but I don't know what to make of it. Would anyone be so kind as to explain to me how passwords are formed and what does what within this table? </p>