Browse to http://localhost:8080/ Notice the nav menu with "Sign In" and "About RHN" Login with a valid RHN user. Notice the menu has not changed. Click "View A List of Users" link Notice the nav menu changes to the authenticated one. The authenticated menu should show up immediately after login. I believe the culprit to be the AuthServlet which puts in the user to the session.
we now go straight to the userlist page with a real redirect, so that the site realizes we are logged in.