[development] Question about Drupal ACLs

Alan Dixon alan.g.dixon at gmail.com
Wed Jul 12 18:28:39 UTC 2006


Organic groups might be what you're looking for? I think of it as like
the node access by role except with an extra level of indirection. If
not, it might at least provide some interesting ideas about
manipulating the node_access table.

 - Alan

On 7/10/06, Nick Whalen <drupal_acls at gottathink.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to the mailing list so I'm sorry if this has been covered
> before.
>
> I'm curious to see if there are built in mechanisms or maybe other
> modules that will allow me to assign ACLs to specific nodes.  In
> particular I want to show or hide menu items and restrict access to
> their linked nodes based on a user's role.
>
> So far I haven't found anything (that works) fitting this description in
> Drupal or it's modules.  So my question is: Did I miss it, and if I
> didn't would people in the community be interested in a module that
> provided this level of access control?
>
> Thanks for your time!
>
> --
> Nick Whalen <nick at gottathink.com>
> Gottathink, LLC
>
>


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