Simple Auth Login System (Code Included) -- Need Tips

This is my first Auth system, and I've been running into some trouble and was hoping for some advice or answers to the a resolution of my problems.

I've been piecing this together from random ideas and tutorials I have found online.

First off, I am not trying to build a complicatedly secure system, and this login function i have going is working.

But what I cannot resolve is:

1) How do I redirect the users to my views/cms/index once the user has logged in? In my index controller function I tried:
$this->Auth->loginRedirect = array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'cms'); - but this did absolutely nothing.

2) Further, login.ctp (see below) I tried to display my logout button like so:
<?php if(isset($Auth)) {echo $html->link('Logout',array('controller'=>'users','action'=>'logout')); } ?> - and this did not work either?

I removed all of the "non-working" code from my below code. But you can see what I've got going.

I would appreciate any comments, advice, or corrections here cause I just can't get this to come together the way I need it to.

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users_controller.php
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<?php
class UsersController extends AppController {
var $name = 'Users';

function login() {
}

function logout() {
$this->redirect($this->Auth->logout());
$this->Session->destroy('user');
$this->redirect('login');
}
}
?>

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user.php - model
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<?php
class User extends AppModel {
var $name = 'User';
}
?>

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login.ctp - view
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<?php
if ($session->check('Message.auth')) $session->flash('auth');
echo $form->create('User', array('action' => 'login'));
echo $form->input('username');
echo $form->input('password');
echo $form->end('Login');
}
?>
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