Hi Mark,

If you set your portal to use private registration, once the user has registered they will receive an email that give them a registration code they need to use when first logging into the portal. Until they put that code in and their username & password, they won't be able to access anything.

As for the cookie to keep them logged in indefinitely, there is a cookie set if they click on the 'remember me' link. I think you can control the amount of time that cookie lasts in the web.config, it might be the PersistentCookieTimeout settings. I think the default is 0, which means it doesn't timeout at all. I have always left it at the default in all my portals and never had an issue. I'm sure there is more info within the forums for this setting. It looks like you can do all of the things you want without any custom modifications. Isn't DNN great :)

Did I type private .. yes, it should be verified. Thanks for catching that Mitch.