Portlets receive the same authenticated state that you get when you create an authenticated session when logging into the Portal So all you have to do is login to your portal, and the Alfresco portlet running inside this portal will be in this authenticated state (authenticated state = Principal object with its proper roles etc) Thanks View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4020826#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...