I think if you embed blocks in your template, you could get a message to show up on /supersecretpage.

So, say you embedded content from a scrapbook or something, that might work.

...Not an ideal solution so I'm curious to see what people say about this one.

Hmm, that's a creative solution and I may end up going that route if I can't track down a proper fix at the moment. Thanks!

The "page forbidden" page really confuses things because you see what looks like the login page but it's actually not the login page -- it's the page_forbidden page which pulls in a login form and displays it there. So what you want to do is add the same content to both the /login and the /page_forbidden pages. (Use the dashboard sitemap and check the "show system pages" box to see both of those pages -- visit them and edit just like any other page).

BTW, I'm assuming you modified your theme's view.php file to have an editable area in it (because I'm not sure how else you could have added content to the login page) -- so you'll need to go to config/site_theme_paths.php and add '/page_forbidden' as an item that uses your theme.

Thanks for the input. I actually have a login.php in the template folder already which does have a couple of editable areas. And the site_theme_paths.php has both set to use the custom template. There is currently content entered through the UI on both /login and /page-not-found, but if you directly access /super-secret-page (which should use the page-not-found page if I'm understanding things correctly) none of the entered content is displayed.

Also, if you dump out current collection $c on the login/page-not-found template it is instantiated with the super-secret-page's data which seems a little odd to me.