Overriding Admin Login module

Question

I have to requirement that magento front end contain admin login at the footer. I have done template. I need to redirect the page to admin credential checks controller after submitting admin username and password.. is their any idea,

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try to make your form submit to

Mage::helper('adminhtml')->getUrl('adminhtml/dashboard/index');

There is not controller that handles the submission of the admin login form.
In the backend the login form has no action.

The login is handled by Mage_Admin_Model_Observer::actionPreDispatchAdmin this is the observer for the event controller_action_predispatch for the admin area.