I believe in the configuration that I sent up in my orginal post, the authentication works (otherwise I will get a "login failed" message.) However, it just cannot get to the portal. I thought the LDAP server is only used for authentication and not for looking up the role permissions by the portal if I use LDAPLoginModule. Therefore I thought I have to enter into the database the user and the role it is assigned to. Could you please explain in more detail this is not the case? Thanks. -Andrew View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4027203#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...