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The "Lost username / password" link only works for internal accounts where you use the regular login form.

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If you log in via Persona, SSO or Moodle for example, you must retrieve your password directly from these services. If you do not know how to do that, please ask your administrator.

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You only see the Persona and SSO buttons if these authentication methods have been enabled on your site.

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|new in Mahara 15.04| :index:`You <single: New in Mahara 15.04; Hide login form>` can hide the login form entirely if your Mahara instance generally only connects to an external authentication method such as MNet or CAS. In these cases, your users will need to log in via a different site and seeing the login form on the homepage may only be confusing.

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:index:`You can hide <single: config.php; Hide login form>` the login form by adding the value ``$cfg->showloginsideblock = false;`` to your *config.php* file. Once you have done that, only a link to the login form is displayed for an administrator to log into the site.

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Link to the login form

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After you successfully logged in to Mahara, you see your *Dashboard*. This is your homepage where you can see the latest activity of you and other users on Mahara. You can customise the dashboard so that you always see the items that are most important to you.

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Only you can see your dashboard. Nobody else has access to it.

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Overview

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You can change certain aspects of your dashboard, namely the :ref:`user-specific information <user_specific_information>`, but a lot of what you see is static to allow you to quickly access other parts of Mahara.