i tried what you said, but i found an exception when jboss reads login-config.xml. it seems like a bad-formed xml file but it has no sense: 11:44:28,802 WARN [XMLLoginConfigImpl] End loadConfig, failed to load config: file:/C:/is/jboss-4.0.4RC1/server/default/conf/login-config.xml INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/12/14 11:44:28 | org.jboss.security.auth.login.ParseException: Encountered "<?xml" at line 1, column 1. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4112870#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...