Swipht technologies developed a set of security modules with sponsorship from Portland State University. The modules provide roles and user specific security permissions for menus, menu items, nodes, and security integration into the administration and help systems. We would like to provide this suite of modules back to the community to share the usefulness of the suite and involve the community to provide additional support, testing, and moderation.
Special care was taken to ensure the usability of permission management was consistent across all sections of the system (nodes, menus, menu items). Also each security module uses a cascading security scheme to allow global security and the option to override or define exceptions to the security model for individual items.

For example, defining global node access rights by role will dynamically apply the security scheme to all content types and nodes created. However the user can override the global security scheme for an individual content type, and override the permissions for a given content type by setting permissions on an individual node.

Please be advised that there may be issues with the modules if you are attempting to run them on a platform or application version not used in the development and testing. I will do my best to trouble shoot issues with environments that are not setup exactly like that which was used to develop the modules.

Operating System: Linux
HTTP Server: Apache 1 or 2
Database Server: Mysql 5.0
PHP application server: 5.0

Modules in the suite:

I am unsure if a D7 version of this module is needed. Think it is? Post your comments to the issue queue dedicated to the topic.

http://drupal.org/node/1067696

Related modules

If this module is not what you were looking for, there are several other modules that handle content access. Here are some of them:

Admin Access

Issues

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