Support for this was just added to seam in CVS (yesterday). From the docs: 12.3. Disabling Security In some situations it may be necessary to disable Seam Security, for example during unit tests. This can be done by calling the static method Identity.setSecurityEnabled(false) to disable security checks. Doing this prevents any security checks being performed for the following: Entity Security | Hibernate Security Interceptor | Seam Security Interceptor | Page restrictions View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4047632#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...