Where does Drupal store user permissions in the database?

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Published on 2010-05-22T23:58:03Z Indexed on 2010/05/23 0:00 UTC
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Does anyone know where Drupal stores, in the Database, the role of a user? It's not in the users table, and I can't seem to find it. I can find where it defines the role, defines the role's permissions, but I can't find where it defines what Role a certain User is. Anyone know? Thanks!

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