If you want to produce different (more specific) failure messages from your authentication bean, you can add the faces message(s) in the bean and blank out the seam login failed message. if (isUsernameMissing) { | FacesMessages.instance().add("Username does not exist."); | } else { | FacesMessages.instance().add("Invalid password provided"); | } org.jboss.seam.loginFailed= View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4049479#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...