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  • Re-inventing your own (almost certainly insecure) authentication scheme when sturdy, secure, battle-tested and relatively easy to use authentication schemes already exist is not the greatest idea I've ever heard, especially when you admit that you don't understand the fundamental principles of authentication, authorization and accounting. Commented Apr 27, 2017 at 22:38
  • So which do you think makes more sense... spending the time to educate yourself about all of the relevant security implications before you roll your own, or simply adopting an existing authentication mechanism that's already better written than either you or I could accomplish? Commented Apr 27, 2017 at 22:46
  • @RobertHarvey Then what would you recommend for a simple authentication framework that allows my own defined set of privileges stored in my own database table (not Windows auth)? Commented Apr 28, 2017 at 2:12