You can disable the caching of the security roles. See this for details http://www.jboss.org/community/docs/DOC-9246 View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4191778#4191778 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4191778