It's a bad practise to run jboss as 'root'. You should try to fix the real problem instead. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4103274#4103274 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4103274