User types / role - developers

Question

You have regular users that use your website/services, they can login to mainsite1, then you have developers, that can not login to mainsite1, but can login to developercenter1. Do you:

1) Store every type of users into 1 large USER table then assign different roles?

or

2) Create a completely separate table just for developers, since they are both completely different users using two different sites?

Answer 1

It's probably appropriate to centralise the logins, then add roles, and then link special properties for each group through a related table.

So yes, I'd assign roles, and keep login centralised (this means it can be one codebase to do the login, which is good).

Answer 2

id use a roles based system as having 2 similar data structures may be a bad idea going forward - if you change one and not the other then you may have issues