Well of course Seam 'remembers' - authentication is session scoped and simply hitting the back button won't destroy your session. If the user is already authenticated then calling Identity.login() again won't re-authenticate the user again, if you want that kind of behaviour then you'll need to create a page action that calls Identity.logout(). The best I can do if the user is already authenticated is to return a message stating so. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4126394#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...