Granting FBA Authenticated users access to a custom Application page

In order to grant authenticated FBA users access to a custom application page (/_layouts page), please follow these steps:

• The Page should inherit from LayoutsPageBase (Making it inherit from UnsecuredLayoutsPageBase will grant anonymous access to this page).
• Override the Properties RightsRequired and RequireDefaultLayoutsRights

       protected override SPBasePermissions RightsRequired        {            get            {                SPBasePermissions permissionRequired = SPBasePermissions.ViewPages;                return permissionRequired;            }        }

       protected override bool RequireDefaultLayoutsRights        {            get            {                return false;            }        }

This will grant authenticated FBA users access to this _Layouts page.