I don't know how to make it any clearer. You connect as user A. You authenticate. You can only do things user A is given permission to do. Yes, people are s

I don't know how to make it any clearer. You connect as user A. You authenticate. You can only do things user A is given permission to do. Yes, people are suggesting talking directly to the DB. We want that because we already use our DB this way anyways, but we have to have a completely unnecessary web layer sitting in front of it just to pass the request directly back to the database without doing anything to it.