User Login Page?

[eluser]Colin Williams[/eluser]

Call me crazy, but maybe this could be suggested for something to be a helper in future versions, like a basic user/pass login thing built into CI?

Well, it is the most active area of development in the community, I believe. Check the wiki.

As far as being part of CI core, it won't happen. It doesn't fit the vision of EllisLab, which is to have a flexible, very portable application development framework. If it were to become part of core, they would be locking you into specific conventions and a specific data schema, to an extent. The only place CI does this currently is there Session Class, except that's only if you enable storing session info in the DB. I can't imagine a user system that works without a DB (besides simple username/password combos). It's best left in the realm of contributed solutions.