It helps if you need to restrict particular content (in my case a help desk) to certain users(e.g.:Software customers). Would be nice if we could customize the "No permission" message.

Otherwise good job.

It looks well done, but you can't use the access control to Section/Categories until you pay for the 'pro' version.

This is mis-leading, no where on the site does it say this until you have already installed and start working on locking your stuff down.

So what does the free version offer exactly?

I tried this extension. Really easy to configure and customize. But when I look for results in frontend, I was disappointed. I wanted my client from frontend to be able to work with digifolio and jportfolio (portfolio components). But, only thing that this component can do is to forbid access to those portfolio components. Why, o why would I configure some component and lose much time to make it work and then-boom, forbid anyone to look at it from frontend. I am definetely confused or I just misunderstood the purpose of this Frontend-user component. When I saw this component I have to say I was thrilled so much that I have danced for 5 minutes. It was just too good to be true. Now I have to give my client backend control and I am really sad because of that.

Excellent Component. Thanks a ton :). Please seed to make it popular

An excellent piece of software for joomla. You advanced to version 1.6

Just the thing that is missing in Joomla 1.5. It can be configured within 10min and just works.

Thanks a lot!