A secure way to check user permissions outside of the vB enviroment?

[thenewuser]

Hey there. My staff and myself have a private, pay only forum for software tools.

ATM we are using simple AutoIt and are moving to c# soon.

Anyway, what would be a secure way for the program to check a users status.

Would it need to login to our vB database and check it like that, however how could we do that WITH OUT giving the program the login credentials.

Thanks.

[Dismounted]

You'll have to give the program access to the database, in turn giving it the details.

[thenewuser]

Do you think vb.net is secure enough to do this?

[Dismounted]

It's not a matter of language, it's how you approach doing this. You could always call a script which returns permissions.