Hi I wonder if someone could point me in the right direction.

I'm going through the process of migrating all of my internally hosted company websites to an externally hosted Umbraco managed CMS sites.

I have a question concerning member security roles.

Basically a person will buy one of our products and when they do so they get created on our internal systems which creates them a username, password and any security roles that they may require for browsing secure content on our current site. All of this information, along with any other data, will be stored in an SQL database.

Eventually this database will reside on the same hosting as the Umbraco installation and I'll need to write some custom .Net controls to return and display this data.

The 'blind spot' that I have is how do I associate the member's logins/membership roles held within this standalone database with security that i may have attached to the content inside of Umbraco? Is there a way to import the logins/roles into the Umbraco database? Or should I forget the Umbraco security engine and write my own controls and include them in the Umbraco templates that I need to create to house the content?

Any advice that could be offered would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Craig