Field-level security

 I have a request to grant access to a page, but to restrict the users who will have access to the page via this role/permission list from seeing one of the fields on the page.  I've been researching how to hide fields on a page, and the only solution I've found so far, is to use PeopleCode to restrict access to the field by checking for user type and then either displaying or hiding the field based on the value returned from the user type check.  Does anyone know if there is another way to do this?