You can ignore the boot.log entry - it is debug. Ditto for the first entry you posted for the server.log. But this error indicates to me that you have made some other change that you did not mention: 2009-04-09 21:29:30,425 ERROR [org.jboss.security.auth.spi.UsersRolesLoginModule] (main) Failed to l oad users/passwords/role files java.io.IOException: No properties file: users.properties or defaults: defaultUsers.properties found View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4224812#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...