Overview

To ensure data security of the User Profile feature; site administrators may want to restrict users' ability to view other users' profiles.

Requirements

• Access to Superuser/Host access

Solution

There is currently no option within DNN that's purposely built for this objective (restricting users from accessing other users' profiles).  There is a workaround to somehow limit the user's ability to view other users' profiles. The option to do this is below:

1. Login as Superuser/Host to your site
2. Go to Persona Bar > Content > Pages > Activity Feed > Settings > Permissions tab
3. Under the All Users role, you can uncheck the permission under View Tab (Note: by default, only the "View Tab" is checked)

The steps above will prevent users from accessing other users' profiles when they click on the display name. They would see a message on the page that says "You do not have access to view this page within the site."

Note: Make sure that this change will work for your users as this will affect user experience and you can allow specific user access by adding users to a specific role that has view access.

Testing

You can test that these changes have been applied by:

1. Search for a user in the Search Bar
2. Try to access the user profile by clicking on their display name

You should get the message "You do not have access to view this page within the site."