I have followed the approach on http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/43/2236100b413fe1e10000000a11466f/frameset.htm to implement Federated portal.
I have created an object to serve as the Producer and from my other portal registered for it.
In the producer portal I have given the permissions for the Role in producer as user_admin_role with full control and available for end user.
But now in the consumer portal, while I get the content of my producer portal in Content Admin -> Portal Content -> Netweaver content producers. and while I also get it in the drop down of the search criteria of "Available roles" in User Admin;
it <b>does not give me any result in the search</b> even if i search for *