In this chapter, we will use a database to authenticate users. Other methods used to store security information include files and LDAP. We will need to update our course_management database with tables to store information about users and groups. Let's create three tables—User, Groups, and User_Group:
Figure 14.1: New tables for authentication
The User table stores the username and password. The Groups table stores the group names. We will group names directly into roles later. The User_Group table is a joint table, joining the User and Groups tables. One user can be in many groups, and ...
