I have a small db, nothing fancy just 5 tables. I would like to use forms authentication but it creates its own db to do its stuff. I don’t need anything fancy, and I certainly don’t need the added infrastructure, but I’d like the security forms authentication provides. I have a person table, with a login and password field. how can I make it so forms uses these fields and returns my users id? is this even possible with forms? if not, how can I make it so forms creates it’s infrastructure on my db so I can merge my tables with the ones forms needs to work?
I know this is probably quite simple but I haven’t found anything on the net after hours of research.
If you want to use your own tables then you’re going to have to implement your own MembershipProvider. This allows you to use your own tables and stored procedures, but still hook into the forms auth structure.