G'day mates.

 I've just released a new Web Part called the Access Checker Web Part (Beta) on Codeplex. It's purpose is to allow site administrators to determine what access a particular user has to content within a Site.

More specifically, you can view graphically whether a user has a particular set of permissions on Sites and Lists.

Background 

In our environment we would receive emails from site administrators fed up with managing permissions for users. A common scenario would be that a user needed to be able to read all content within a site. For a site admin to be certain of this, they would need to visit each list and library permissions page and check that a) the list was inheriting permissions or b) the list has unique permissions and the user needs to be added directly. (Not to mention folder and list item permissions, but that's outside the scope of what this web part addresses!)

Expand this problem out to groups of sites and it gets really scary...

The Web Part solves this management issue for site administrators. The web part will confirm what permissions a user has to each list and site at a certain level in a Sharepoint hierarchy. It can also show the permission inheritance hierarchy for a better understanding of how permissions are setup.

The Web Part is currently in Beta, so i would like to get some feedback on its usefulness and if you have any suggestions on improving this web part i would like to hear about them.

Tom Shirley.