Posted by fago on April 12, 2007 at 11:27am
I've put some work into a 5.x nodeaccess module. It could be the superior from the current nodeaccess module, and perhaps also from the simple_access module. I'm waiting for feedback from the authors..
So my module provides extended role based access control per content type, but it can be configured to manage per user access control per node - it does this by integrating with the ACL module, as well as role based per node access control.
Like simple_access it doesn't touch any permissions when it's activated. It also does some performance optimizations and tries to keep the UI simple.
Read a more detailed description or download and test the module at http://drupal.org/node/135693.