Hi everyone,
First, my apologies if this is posted in the wrong forum.  I wasn't sure if it should go here or in the Design and Skins forum.  Seemed like a coin flip...

I have two environments for MojoPortal:  production and test.  For production (a public facing website), I don't want the login link to be visible.  I have a good understanding of how to do this via a previous forum post:  http://www.mojoportal.com/Forums/Thread.aspx?pageid=5&t=4067~-1

However, I'd prefer to show/hide the login link programmatically to save myself the step of manually editing layout.master every time I deploy to production.  So far, I've come up with two options:

1. Add code to the Page_Load() event of class mojoPortal.Web.layout :
    if(someCriteria)
        LoginLink.Visible = false;
    else
        LoginLink.Visible = true;

2. Add code to the OnLoad() event of class mojoPortal.Web.UI.LoginLink :

    if(someCriteria)
        this.Visible = false;
    else
        this.Visible = true;

I don't like either option because they both violate the rule of "Don't fork the code".  I'm thinking there may be options I'm not aware of that are very different from my way of thinking.  Is there another way?

Regards,
Dave

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the input.  I stumbled upon another option that you outlined in this thread:  https://www.mojoportal.com/Forums/Thread.aspx?pageid=5&t=5045~1

This involves removing (or commenting out) the <portal:LoginLink/> element from layout.master, and advising admins, content providers, et al to manually browse to the login page located (/secure/login.aspx).  This makes a lot of sense to me.  Is this how most others use MojoPortal?  Is it safe/secure?