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Drupal 6.16 CiviCRM 3.1.3

Is there a way to remove the login form for contacts clicking through to modify their contact record.  In our situation, the contact should never login from here and almost all are not users.  Also, I think we need a little more explanation before the form about what we expect the contact to do, even after the field help.

Similar situation with the Opt-Out - leaves the contact on a screen looking like they should logon, but the are not supposed to.

Teach me to not document how I resolved this issue the last time around or make a note of the forum post that gave the answer.   Anyway, figured it out again and I'll post the answer here.

For those of us that have quite a few contacts that are not users, when we send an email asking the recipient to update their profile by clicking on a link, confusion is generated when the login block is displayed on the update profile page.

Sample update your information link:
<a href="<oursite>l/index.php?q=civicrm/profile/edit&amp;gid=5&amp;reset=1&id={contact.contact_id}&{contact.checksum}">Click Here to Update Your Profile</a>

Under Administration / Structure / Blocks there is an item for User Login.

We can change the user login Region from "Left sidebar" to none and that will solve the issue with profile edit pages linked from email blasts and it might be a good idea from a security standpoint, it makes it quite a bit harder for authorized users to logon (have to use the ?q=user. URL.   So I left the User login Region as "Left sidebar" and with the configure link I added to the Show block on specified pages - All pages except those listed.   Not sure of the path I should enter, but with a few tries *profile* seemed to stop the logon on the profile edit link.     

I hope someone else files this helpful.