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While our site is still under development and testing I’d like to encourage internal staff to poke around. I don’t want them to be faced with yet-another-login page. How can I set up a page with a link on our internal site which when clicked on automatically logs them into the external expression engine site under a specific username without asking for a username and password?

I tried this but it doesn’t work:

<form action="http://www.example.com/ee/admin/index.php?S=0&C=login&M=auth" method="post">
      <input name="XID" value="1bc1a6a8e77bf285d34499f29b6f24033aeaebcb" type="hidden">
      <input name="return_path" value="index.php" type="hidden">
      <input dir="ltr" style="width: 150px;" name="username" id="username" value="" size="20" maxlength="32" class="input" type="hidden" value="guest_account">
      <input dir="ltr" style="width: 150px;" name="password" id="password" value="" size="20" maxlength="32" class="input" type="hidden" value="guest_password">
      <input class="submit" value="Submit" type="submit">
</form>

You could use the LogMeIn plugin to do this but you would probably want to create a really weirdly named template or something so that no-one outside your staff access it just by guessing the name or something like that.

Hope that helps a bit.

Best wishes,

Mark

Also, if you are going to require multiuser/group login make sure they know this will change…otherwise you are giving them a ‘feature’ that will be taken away down the line

thanks, that did the trick.

No problem.

Hope it all goes well for you.

Best wishes,

Mark

a follow-on question: any idea how I can get the login page to automatically redirect to another page? I tried meta-refresh in the header but it was ineffective.

see if this thread helps…I have never used it.

Or you could just simply use the {redirect=""} Global Variable if you are after a simple built-in method.

That extension is rather sexy though 😉

Best wishes,

Mark

Here is this article as well for an alternative…perhaps not what you need but at least something to consider.