New official release - 1.1
If you have a ton of users and a ton of roles on your site this module aims to eliminate errors in assigning roles and simply make it easier to keep track of who should be able to do what.
The site admin -
defines account types
assigns roles to each account type via checkboxes
Either the site admin or user admin -
assigns account types to users
assigns roles to users based on the limits of the account type
The user -
can't tell the difference
Permissions and roles behave as they always have. Account types pretty much just disable the role checkboxes on the user edit page so that the wrong role can't be assigned the user. This is important if you have a person that is a little technically challenged helping to administer users or who doesn't understand that a particular person isn't supposed to be assigned a role just because they requested it.
NEW FEATURE! You can now select roles that will be auto-assigned when the user gets the Account Type assigned to them.