I think the "jaas-config-name" should be "drools-guvnor" (the name of the jaas configuration from the file designated by java.security.auth.login.config). I'm not sure what version of seam is used by guvnor; see also here: http://docs.jboss.org/seam/2.2.2.Final/reference/en-US/html/security.html#d0e9072 Hope this helps, Nick