On the master page wrap the content of the sidebar area with content area tags and give it an id like SideBarContentArea or something. What this does is create a new content area that you can choose to override on pages based of the master and specifies default content that will show up when you do not implement in on the child pages. Now on the login page all you have to do is override the SideBarContentArea and not include the login control this time.
If you are concerned about duplication of html markup you could use nested master pages to avoid that issue.
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