That is so weird. Personalizerecursive is supposed to be a superset of viewrecursive. Yet, in 2.4.1, on the Management page, I can change the security for the Admin page as you have indicated and see the Admin tab disappear. Try this. In the jboss-portal.sar/conf/data/default-object.xml file, replicate the entire description for the Admin page and name it something else, e.g., NewAdmin. Also, change the if-exists setting at the very start of the file to 'overwrite'. Then when you start up, log in as admin and you should have a NewAdmin tab. From there you can fix the security on the Admin tab, and finally get rid of the NewAdmin tab. Remember to reset the default-object.xml file back to the original. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4009632#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...