authenticating methods...

i was curious as to which methods you are authenticating your users? for example, i'm using apache, mysql and php in a win2k box. i want to maintain my own table of users and authenticate from that. do you have a single user with just enough rights do a SELECT? and then have another account for the other tasks? or a single user that does everything including the INSERTS? and where are you storing the username and password? in the code itself or call it via the INCLUDE statement? thanks... -- Leo G. Divinagracia III ldivinag@csuhayward.edu