I would like to show a different status message, when a suspended user tries to login. If the user is active we return true from the authenticate method, if not we add a custom StatusMessage message mentioning that the "User X has been suspended". The underlying Identity authentication also fails and adds a StatusMessage. I tried removing the seam generated statusMessage with the following methods, but it doesn't seem to work and shows me 2 different status messages (my custom message, seam generated). What would be the issue here?

StatusMessages statusMessages;

statusMessages.clear() statusMessages.clearGlobalMessages() statusMessages.clearKeyedMessages(id)

EDIT1:

public boolean authenticate() {

    log.info("Authenticating {0}", identity.getCredentials().getUsername());

    String username = identity.getCredentials().getUsername();
    String password = identity.getCredentials().getPassword();

    // return true if the authentication was
    // successful, false otherwise
    try {
        Query query = entityManager.createNamedQuery("user.by.login.id");
        query.setParameter("loginId", username);
        // only active users can log in
        query.setParameter("status", "ACTIVE");

        currentUser = (User)query.getSingleResult();
    } catch (PersistenceException ignore) {
        // Provide a status message for the locked account
        statusMessages.clearGlobalMessages();
        statusMessages.addFromResourceBundle(
                "login.account.locked", new Object[] { username });
        return false;
    }

    IdentityManager identityManager = IdentityManager.instance();
    if (!identityManager.authenticate(username, "password")) {
        return false;
    } else {
        log.info("Authenticated user {0} successfully", username);
    }

}