That's because your parent object (the portal) has view-recursive rights (meaning that all the children can be viewed) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4069075#4069075 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4069075