I would suggest you take a look at the login controls, specifically this
example of displaying different information to logged in and anonymous uers
via the login view control

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178345.aspx

Regards

John Timney (MVP)
http://www.johntimney.com
http://www.johntimney.com/blog

Hi Brian,

Regarding on your current scenario, are you using the ASP.NET's built-in
forms authentication? Or have you also adopted the ASP.NET 2.0
membership/roleManager services?  If so, I think it is quite convenient to
implement the security structure you want. Here is the steps for you to
configure them:

** Normally, forms authentication by default will allow everyone access
"login.aspx", this is the login entry. Therefore, you will not need to
apply particular secure setting on it

** For other aspx pages in your application, you can simply set them to
allow only authenticated users(who has login) by the following
authorization setting:
==================
<system.web>
..........
     <authorization>
       <deny users="*"/>
     </authorization>
.........
============

** For the Default.aspx page, if you want to make it also available to all
users(authenticated or unauthenticated), you can use the <location> element
to apply a dedicated authorization setting for it. e.g.

<configuration>
   <location path="default.aspx¡±>
       <system.web>
           <authorization>
               <allow users="*" />
           </authorization>
       </system.web>
   </location>
</configuration>
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

You can also use this approach to provide customized authorization
setting(or some other setting that allow sub directory level) for a
particular page or sub directory in your ASP.NET application:

#HOW TO: Control Authorization Permissions in an ASP.NET Application
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316871

#How To Make Application and Directory-Specific Configuration Settings in
an ASP.NET Application
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/815174

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead



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