I found the taxonomy_access module (http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_access), which will almost do what I wanted for the home pages per user/role. When a user logs in, what variable when using php input denotes the role id? Or, is there even such a thing, since a user can belong to multiple roles?
What I want to do specifically, is create a generic "downloads" page. When the user logs in and access the "downloads" page, the contents of the page is dynamically generated listing nodes he/she has access to as specified by the taxonomy_access module.
I can sort of do this now by creating individual aliases for the taxonomy term, i.e. downloads1->taxonomy/term/X, downloads2->taxonomy/term/Y, etc. Ideally, I'd like to just have a "downloads" that lists term/X and/or term/Y depending on the user. I'm guessing I should be able to key off of the role id to dynamically generate such a page. Thanks for any tips and links.
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