Hello PeterJ: I did actually start a new post, which happened to notice also. I responded to this post since I found this to be the closest to what I am trying to accomplish (and the error matches exactly with what I see in my test), and was getting really desparate for help. I wanted to give the solution in this post a try and see if that fixed my issues, but had a question about the user.properties and role.properties file. I have looked at the JbossAS directory structure, and so far have only modified the properties file under $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/conf/props to secure the jmx-console. Thanks you for your response to my other post. I appreciate your help. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4163699#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...