We're working on a skin for a site which will have logins available only for administrators; the general user won't be able to register or login.

If we leave the "Login" token out of the skin, how does one implement logins for admins?  I searched the forums, but couldn't find any discussions of this.  There must be an elegant way of doing this.  Or maybe the answer is so obvious I can't see it.

Thanks for your help.

  -- Vikram

Nina's solution is great.  Another way you can do it is by simply instructing them to append the URL with "&ctl=login" (without the quotes), which incidentally is also a great way to login if you've accidentally lost access to the usual account login, by removing it from your skin for example.

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Shane Miller

Thanks for all the great suggestions, guys.

I think what we'll do finally is move the login token to the bottom panel that contains "Terms of Use," "Privacy Statement," and so on, and stick the login in there with some innocuous label like "Small Print."

If some nosy user is going to click on that, well, they deserve to be greeted with a login screen.  :)

  -- Vikram