You cannot use the ASP.NET Administration tool for managing mojoPortal users.

You can create users from the member list page if you are in a role to manage users there is a link to add new user on the member list page. you can disable site registration so users cannot register themselves from site settings then you can still add users manually.

What you are saying about putting the sign in link inside a loginview makes no sense, sign in link must be visible when the user is not logged in not when the user is already logged in so there is no logical way to show the sign in link to just some users because you don't know who they are until after they sign in and at that point the sign in link is hidden anyway

I think you're confused about how the users and roles system works. Basically, you create all users the same way and then assign them different roles. The roles are then setup on pages and content to control what the users in those roles can see and do on the site.

As far as hiding the sign-in link so that only certain people see it, as Joe A. said, you can't do that. What you can do is remove the link altogether and have those that would need to sign-in just type in http://www.some.url/secure/login.aspx.

HTH,
Joe D.

The only thing that differentiates users that manage the site is their roles and the permissions associated with their roles. Users who register on a site don't get any roles with special permissions unless you add them to the roles. I sign into this site the same way you do but I can edit content and you can't because you are not in a role allowed to edit content. The only reason people register on this site is to show their support for the project (since we want them to register), to be able to post in the forums, or to purchase add on products.

So the kinds of users are:

• anonymous visitors who are not signed into the site and we don't knw who they are
• users who sign into the site

The second group only has roles granted to them and can only do what their roles allow but there is only one kind of user, they are all registered users who have an account on the site and they may have different roles and therefore different permissions.

Now you may have a site where the only people who do login are the ones who manage it if it is just a brochure site not using forums or ecommerce. For a site like that you could either put the sign in link in the footer where less people will notice it or remove the sign in and register links from the layout.master file and the users who manage the site would have to just know that they can login by going to /Secure/Login.aspx. But there is no way to show the links to just some users because you don't know who they are until they login. If I'm a person in the adminsitrators role the site does not and cannot know that until I login.

Hope that helps,

Joe