Hide Site Actions
Anatoly Mironov
The easiest way to hide Site Actions for a specific audience is to wrap this into a SPSecuritityTrimmingControl. Locate this span in your master page:
<span id="siteactiontd">Paste this before the span element:
<SharePoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl
runat="server"
Permissions="ManageLists">Find the closing span tag:
</span>Paste this after it:
</SharePoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl>