User and Groups control of article page and menu view - How

Sirs,

I am considering using Farcry on a project and being a lazy devil and not such a good CF coder I would have like to soo more extensions available. I guess I will just have to get down and dirty with code.

However one thing I might have expected to find is simpler user and groups control of page views. I can find groups with policies but no front end method of joining and no immediate method of hiding certain pages or navgiation nodes from non logged-in persons - How should I do this?

Julian