I'm not sure how far into this you have gotten so I'll start with a summary:
The way the server works is that there is "vegaserver" which hosts a set of systems and handles physics and network. Each vegaserver connects to a specific accountserver.
The clients also connect to accountserver, which has a list of all servers, and points the player to the correct server (ip address/port).
The accountserver is a CGI script that will check for permissions and store savegame files. It currently has two interfaces, a simple "file" database, which stores a separate file for each player. And a "mysql" database which hosts a table for each player. This accountserver can be found in "vegastrike/data/cgi-accountserver".
The accountserver has a file called "settings.sample.py", which you copy to settings.py and change the database settings. First thing you want to do is change the "dbconfig= file_dbconfig" to instead have "mysql_dbconfig"
Currently the mysql config requires two database tables:
'phpbb_users' which contains ('username', 'user_id', 'user_password')
And, 'accounts', which contains ('username', 'modname', 'csv', 'savegame', 'logged_in_server')
The phpbb_users thing was a simple hack to make it work with phpbb. You can change the names of the tables to your liking by looking at the "mysql_dbconfig" variable. But the column names are hardcoded in db.py. Also, user_password is a MD5sum.
If you want to allow users to create a new account upon their first visit to the "register.py" page and will permanently set the password for that account). Then change the "create_user" field to True. (otherwise, you need a separate page for account registration which is more complicated).
Also, you need a http server. If you don't want to deal with the complexity of setting up a http server, there is a "httpserver.py" that you can run with python, then go to "
http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/register.py" to register your account.
Sadly, it's not an easy process to set up a http accountserver. if you get stuck anywhere I should be able to help