I think Gerhard's message caught the essential crux of this (i.e. it won't work). However, I think there should be other ways to achieve your goals- it sounds like you are really trying to just require that nodes be in a group? Or maybe restricted to a group for some node types and not others? Maybe you just need some creative use of hook_form_alter and/or node validation? I suggest that you make a post forum detailing exactly what you want to accomplish, and send to the list a short message with a link, rather than sending all the details to this list. -Peter ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ron Parker <sysop@scbbs.com> To: development@drupal.org Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:55:08 -0700 Subject: [development] Proposed user_access / $user->roles hook I'm re-posting this because the last time I got no response. I'm like THISCLOSE to making this work if I can just figure out this last little bit. If anyone has any notion, please share. It might just be the little bit I need to get over the hump. Thanks. -------- Original Message -------- I am proposing a new project: OG User Roles. I have written to this list before and what I discovered was that I really needed to formulate a proposal for some sort of user_access hook that would include permissions granted from other modules to the final list of permissions for a user during a particular process.