title: How to achieve ASP.NET MVC 4 User Authentication against a MySQL database
body: <p>I am developing a new web project using ASP.NET MVC 4.  </p>
  
  <p>I already have an existing MySQL database that contains a user table of UserId, UserName and Password.  I need to validate certain pages/views (not all) in my MVC project against this data. </p>
  
  <p>Can anyone point me in the right direction to achieve this.  I don't want to implement anything too complicated.  Thanks for any help.</p>