By default, authentication elements show a login form when someone isn't logged in. However, you might want to display a variant of the page for anonymous users and customize it for authenticated users using the 'user authentication facility'. To do this you can set the 'enforce_authenticated' property to false for an authentication element.
For example:
<element extends="rife/authenticated/memory.xml">
<property name="enforce_authenticated">false</property>
<property name="template_name">authentication_memory</property>
<submission name="credentials">
<param name="login"/>
<param name="password"/>
</submission>
<childtrigger name="authid"/>
</element>