title: Alternative User management in ASP.NET MVC
body: <p>I am in the planning phase of a new ASP.NET MVC application and one of the requirements is storing some user information that is not part of the standard set found in the User class that comes with ASP.NET MVC. I suppose it comes down to two questions.</p>
  
  <p>1) Can I edit the class that is being used already to store the information that I need?</p>
  
  <p>2) If I roll my own how can I keep things like the Authentication piece that make things so nice when trying to lock down some views using the User.IsAuthenticated method?</p>
  
  <p>Another alternative I have considered is using the User class provided as is, and instead putting the other information into a separate table with the guid userid as the foreign key.</p>
  
  <p>Suggestions?</p>