Hi Dear John,
The Login controls, which include the Login, LoginView, PasswordRecovery,
LoginStatus, LoginName, CreateUserWizard, and ChangePassword controls, allow
quick, seamless integration between ASP.NET 2.0 security and your Web
applications.
Tightly integrated with the Provider Model, Login controls take full
advantage of the configured provider.
For instance, if you configured your application to use the
AccessMembershipProvider (which is the default), you could easily add to your
page a Login control that would automatically validate a user against the
AspNetDB Access database located within your applications Data folder.
Alternatively, if you configured your application to use the
SqlMembershipProvider, the configured Login controls would validate users
against a SQL database instead.
You can even use XML to store and authenticate username / userid and password
Bye
Venkat_KL