Module - Front Page

Do you want different user roles to have different Front pages when they login or go to the Home page?

The Front Page module (https://drupal.org/project/front) works very well for that.  18,109 reported installs at the time of this writing.

If you want token support, 7.x-2.4 and lower will need a patch: https://drupal.org/node/1786128

Front Page handles roles in the reverse order of what you have defined in the Role arrangement and creation page (admin/people/permissions/roles), so Admin role, then Authenticated, and then finally Anonymous role will be processed when implementing a custom front page.

Here's a screenshot of 2 roles, Authenticated and Anonymous.

As an example, for an e-commerce site and with token support, I can redirect a "customer" role to their Orders page.

More advanced users and cases will probably want to use Rules.

Module: AdminRole

Module Page: http://drupal.org/project/adminrole
Drupal Version Support:

• 6.x -> YES
• 7.x -> Included

From the module page:

This module is a little helper to maintain an administrator role which has all available permissions. By default, Drupal only has one super user and this module helps improve this drastically.

One of the first things many Drupal developers do when they create a new site is to create a role called "administrator" or something along those lines so that users other than User1 can do administrative tasks.  However, as soon as a new module or content type is added, you must go into permissions and enable the permissions for your custom admin role.   With the AdminRole module, you can select which role should be give these permissions by default.

HowTo:

1. First make sure you create your administrator role.  "Admin" is just fine for a name and takes up a lot less space than "Administrator" on the permissions page.
2. Once you've downloaded and enabled the module, goto User Management->User Settings and scroll to the bottom.  You should see something similar to this:
   
3. Now just select the role you want to automatically assign new permissions to, and Save. 

This is one of the modules I include with every make file!!!.  And now it is included in D7, so sweet!