If you need to supply credentials to shutdown, then use: shutdown -S -u userid -p password Of course, you can also shut down the app server by doing a CTRL-C in the command window running the app server. This action cleanly shuts down the app server. Of course this does not work so well if the app server is running as a service and thus there is no command window. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4068490#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...