How to set asp.net authenticated properties

Question

I have the following settings in my web.config file. It basically restricts access to a page if the user is not logged in. If I don\'t want to use the asp login controls or

Answer 1

    // formsAuth does not expose timeout!? have to hack around the
    // spoiled parts and keep moving..
    HttpCookie fooCookie = FormsAuthentication.GetAuthCookie("foo", true);
    int formsTimeout = Convert.ToInt32((fooCookie.Expires - DateTime.Now).TotalMinutes);

Forms Authentication does expose timeout as of .Net 4.0 FormsAuthentication.Timeout.TotalMinutes