For this applications, I will have a table that has a list of users who are "moderators" and they are able to see a part of the website that regular users cannot. I will NOT have a login or anything like that - I have a table that lists all the users who are moderators and if the user who is logged in is a moderator they simply see more of the website.
Right now I am able to get the username of the logged user (these are users who log into a Windows machine, and I simply get their login using a method from System.Security).
The thing I have no idea how to do is actually compare the username to the username in the database that I have. can anyone point me to a tutorial or something that searches through a database to compare the given value and see if there is an identical one in a specific database? I don't want the user to see the database, this is all done "behind the scenes".
Sorry if I can't explain it better - I' ...
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