Hello, I want to chime in with a friendly reminder regarding this task http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-967 (which if you search the forum, shane, you'll find that you offered to add this if I posted a JIRA issue). Anyway, by the time the Seam web-app gets to process the request, the user is already authenticated and authorized by the SSO system + Tomcat Realm. What I really need is a way to have my authenticator's authenticate method invoked without redirecting to a login page. Rather, it would be nice if (maybe) there was a special event that you could assign to call the authenticate method in components.xml. I am using the CAS SSO system http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/ for SSO authentication - I used one of the CAS client code packages and wrote a Tomcat Realm + Valve implementation. If we use servlet security directly, this works great - we'ld like to use Seam security. Any help / discussion about this is appreciated. Thanks, Brad Smith View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4089513#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...