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I'm thinking of a use case where a user registers for the site and rather than being told they'll be sent an email with registration details, the user is set to inactive and told an administrator will review the access request prior to granting site access.

This way, the site administrator could use the profile data gathered during registration to (for example) make decisions on which group(s) to add the user to etc prior to activating the user and emailing a confirmation.

I'm thinking I could set up something like this by adding custom code to the LoggingIn event (http://software.sharepointsolutions.com/support/knowledge/excm/Pages/excm0018.aspx). Before I go that route I thought I'd check to be sure the functionality doesn't already exist in the product or that I've missed an easier solution.

Yes, this can be accomplished. In fact we have done a couple of implementations link this already. Typically, this type of actions is performed on the registration page. We provide two registration events that can be used to perform these types of operations OnRegistering and OnRegistered. OnRegistering get's fired before any registration action occurs. This is a good place for additional validation like user name requirements or setting up request properties. The OnRegistering event fires after registration occurs and is an ideal place to perform the actions you are discussing. We provide you with access to the MembershipUser object and profile attributes through the event properties object passed into the method.