High Level Question

I'm trying to decide if we should use the ASP.Net 2.0 authentications tools
or role-our-own forms authentication as we always did (with little work) in
1.1 apps. what I'm afraid of is that we will get stuck on a cul-de-sac as
we sometimes do using those "no code required" tools.

I see I can define users and roles and access to folders but can I add my
own data about the users - for instance I would certainly need their
employee number or maybe other things about them such a which fields they
can see on the payroll file. Can I do this? Is this what Profiles are for?

Are there any gotchas in these tools? ( I know there are no gottchas in the
role-our-own solution).

Thanks,
Gary Blakely


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