Thanks a lot for your help. I added the role "Authenticated" and everything is working fine. Personalization is not important to my application. The security aspect is what I am really interested in i.e. to be able to configure which pages and portlets a user can access depending on their roles. It seems that as long as I set up the roles in the portal database I can use a UsersRoleLoginModule for authentication and roles a user have. (I hope this works for the LDAPExtLoginModule as well). The roles will be fixed and I am happy to set them up in the portal database. Synchronizing user data with the Portal database is not an option for various reasons. Best Regards, Anette View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4027109#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...