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Hello,

I'm using Civi for the first time and have spent a great deal of time trying to figure out how to do something so basic that I'm almost embarrassed to ask. 

I have an organization who wants a general group of members/users to simply be able to access their individual accounts through the front end of a Joomla 1.7 site. They want them to be able to be able to change their account info such as address, phone, etc and they also want them to be able to renew their memberships. That's it.

Anyways, I've set up all the correct groups, membership types, contributions, and so on. However I can't for the life of me figure out how to log in as a "member." I've set the Joomla menu to the correct Civi contribution page and then it just thanks me for the contribution after I complete the transaction.

Am I missing something somewhere where Civi issues a user name and password so that a user can access their specific account from the front end?

Thanks so much for the help!

-M

Thanks Dave, that was a major help and got me started on the right foot.