I am new to Umbraco so please try to ignore my ignorance but I have a few questions as it relates to website protection. I did search for something similar but could only find questions on a login protection using the Umbraco 'Users' model.

What I am currently doing is converitng a static asp website over to Umbraco, but it is multilingual(will deal with later) and it is protected by a login screen. No login = no access.

So what I want to do is have the homepage as a login screen and then redirect users to their homepage. Which homepage they will see will be determined by settings on their user record in my bespoke 'Users' table.

Is the best way do accomplish this to create a custom user control that connects into my custom Users table, set sessions/cookies relating to the user and then redirect to the appropriate homepage?

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

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Many thanks
Simon