Would there be a way to have the DNN site recognize registered users so that they can bypass the log-in page much the same way as dotnetnuke.com does.  As it is right now, using DDN4, this does not happen on my setup.  I use the site as a small office intranet and would like to encourage it's use as a "homepage" but am met with resistance due to this exact issue.

Any thoughts?

Funny enough, dotnetnuke.com this time around did not recognize me and I had to login manually.  But, I digress.

The "Remember Me" check box does display, and it does work - occasionally.  For instance, using FireFox right now, I've checked the "Remember Me" option and the feature works.  That is to say that if I close the browser and reopen the browser in a few minutes, the site opens and I am automatically logged in.  However, this will eventually go away.  I will be back to needing to log in manually.  This leads me to believe if the cookie is not permanent but rather set to expire at a given length of time.  The same seems to happen with IE.

The "Remeber Me" check box has the effect that I am after but it does not seem to last.

I'd rather not explore the Active Directory for authentication for various reasons.

Thanks Cathal, that seems to be the solution I am looking for.  A couple of questions though as I don't want to screw anything up:

1) I have something that seems like what you are talking about in the form of a <authentication mode="Forms"> node.  But I'm not sure if this is to what you are referring.  Instead, I have nodes about Anonymous Identification (which already is set longer than what the current log-in cookie expires at) and some Membership and Role Manger nodes that also mention cookies and their associated timeout values.  Where should I make the change in order to allow a longer period of time for an automatic log-in?

2) If this is a secruity concern (to have long lasting cookies), is there an industry recognized or recommended anout of time to set for this type of cookie?  I.E. 7 Days, 1 Month, 3 Months, etc...

I appreciate you time and clarification as I am not too familiar with this end of things for DNN or web.config.