Need help creating a password protection for my website

[maestro821]

Need help creating a password/username access for a portion of my website. I would like username/passwords for up to 1000 groups. Each group with an assigned password will have multiple users in that group using the same username/password. I would like to be able to add and delete username password groups and be able to monitor access per username/password group.

[hobbes]

Probably a session-based (e.g., PHP), database-driven (e.g., MySQL) authentication mechanism would be best. That way you can also use the db to store login information for tracking purposes.