On a couple of projects clients have used DNN as a CMS, and as such didn't have any users logging in or registering. So the login option was removed, easiler done, and the administrator would login using the /ctl/login/default.aspx url trick.

The only problem was since the login option was removed from the skin the option to logout was also missing. So I've created a simple tutorial that shows how to add a Logout option to the admin menu.

Check out the tutorial here http://www.bitethebullet.co.uk/AddingaLogoutOptionToTheAdminMenuinDNN/tabid/80/Default.aspx

Regards

Mark

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So you don't like it then? ;)

Oh well, fair comment. But it does work well for the type of sites we have created where there are only two users, administrator (the web site owner) and host (us).
These sites are really simple website where the owner is responsible for all the content, approval and publishing so they would have access the administration menu.

Anyway, that's how you could add the option if you wanted

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WOW. That turned ugly (apparently you should not copy and paste code from VS!). Trying again. I have sites where I do not want a login button/link to appear on the site. I figure why show the casual visitor that logging on is even an option. If my site is say, www.mysitename.com, I set it up so that to get to the login screen, the user goes to edit.mysitename.com. This is how I do it:

In the SiteUrls.config, I have this line:

<RewriterRule>
 <LookFor>http\:\/\/edit\.(.*)</LookFor>
 <SendTo>http://www.$1?ctl=Login</SendTo>
</RewriterRule>

I add edit.mysitename.com as a portal alias and register the subdomain with my hosting provider.
I place this tag on top of my skin.ascx page:

<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="LOGIN" Src="~/Admin/Skins/Login.ascx" %>

And this tag at the bottom of my skin.ascx page:
<dnn:LOGIN runat="server" id="dnnLOGIN" CssClass="skinuser" />

Finally, this code shows the logout link if the user is logged in, but does not show the login link if the user is not logged in:
 
If Page.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated = True Then
 Me.dnnLOGIN.Visible = True
Else
 Me.dnnLOGIN.Visible = False
End If

This works for me. Visitors do not see an option to login, editors can easily remember the edit.mysitename.com URL to get to the login screen, and the logout link appears after the user logs in.