I noticed, that either my login package or Iron-Router itself redirects you, after logging-in, to the home template. I can't seem to find any way to disable this behavior.
Packages I use, that could be related:
I handled the login like this:
unless currentUser
+login
else
+yield
Don't try to handle this in your template, instead handle it directly in iron-router with an onBeforeAction
handler in your route:
onBeforeAction: function(){
if ( Meteor.userId() ){
this.next();
} else this.render('login');
},