Access Control Modules
Submitted by dave on Wed, 2006-04-05 20:49.
Taxonomy Access Control Lite and Category Access Control Lite are very similar modules with the same goal: show site content only to those users who are allowed to see it. The difference is that tac_lite uses Drupal's core taxonomy to determine who can see what, while cac_lite uses the category module. Cac_lite is now included as a contributed module of the category module.
These modules are simple and effective. To the best of my knowledge, they are the most lightweight access control modules available for drupal. In fact, Drupal's core does most of the work, these modules provide administrative pages to configure which users can see content and let the node_access table do the rest. (Well, its actually a little more complicated than that.)
This site uses cac_lite to hide some content so that only my clients and collaborators can see it.
