Symfony 2 - firewall and access control issue - php

Question

I've got a wired problem with the symfony 2 security component. Due to the fact that the {{ app.user }} object is only available within the secured area, I set the firewall pattern to ^/. Now I want to "unsecured" some pages, like registration. I've tried this by using access_control but it doesn't work.
Here is my security.yml
firewalls:
dev:
pattern: ^/(_(profiler|wdt)|css|images|js)/
security: false
login:
pattern: ^/account/login$
security: false
account_area:
pattern: ^/
form_login:
check_path: /account/login_check
login_path: /account/login
default_target_path: /account
remember_me:
key: blaBlubKey
lifetime: 3600
path: /
domain: ~
logout:
path: /account/logout
target: /
access_control:
#works
- { path: ^/backend, roles: ROLE_USER }
#works not
- { path: ^/registration, roles: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Worth mentioning is that the best practice here is to use only one firewall with access_control for login page. Why? What would You do if the logged user tries to access the /login page? You won't be able to check in controller if he is authenticated and redirect him, because the user will be authenticated to your main firewall, but not to the login firewall, as they are separate security systems.
Here is the security.yml that works great for me:
security:
firewalls:
dev:
pattern: ^/(_(profiler|wdt)|css|images|js)/
security: true
anonymous: ~
secured_area:
pattern: ^/
anonymous: ~
form_login:
login_path: /login
check_path: /login_check
always_use_default_target_path: true
default_target_path: /
logout:
path: /logout
target: /
providers:
main:
entity: { class: Core\UserBundle\Entity\User, property: username }
access_control:
- { path: ^/login, roles: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }
- { path: ^/admin, roles: ROLE_SUPERADMIN }
- { path: ^/user, roles: ROLE_USER }
- { path: ^/, roles: IS_AUTHENTICATED_FULLY }

Answer 2

USe anynymous directive in account_area:
account_area:
pattern: ^/
anonymous: ~