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by Default, the /member and /member_list is an enabled feature for members.

However, I don’t want that feature to be available for members. I simply want to control everything I show to the outside world, including what I show to members.

Is .htaccess the only way to exclude or are other solutions available as well?

Set “Can view Public Profiles” to no for the member (and likely guest) groups.

In addition, you could also make the “member” trigger word something obscure and unguessable, and never use / link to it.

Is there any standard way to simply hide this link for certain groups? 

Reason I ask is because I want members to be able to view their own profile pages but I do not want them to be able to see anyone else’s profile or even a physical link to a member list (even if the link doesn’t work).

Problem is, I can turn access off and hide the link but then members cannot see their own profile.

So I hide the link and turn access on and the breadcrumb to ‘Member List’ shows up, and outside of some javascript hack I’m not sure how to change that.  Any ideas?

Thanks!!

The next step: we’d like to hide the whole ‘my account’ section in EE. We’ve build an sophiscated mechanism in maintain user profiles on the external website. It’s full of intelligent javascript and ajax, and it only shows what’s necessary (so no ICQ, MSN etc, which is obviously extremely outdated).

Is that possible as well?

p.s. Lisa, Ingmar: where did your photos go? I actually preferred the personal approach with photos.

We have always used avatars on the forums; the photos are in our profiles and used on the blog.

You could, as Ingmar said, simply obscure the trigger word.  Don’t make it blank as that can break things, but put in a password-like string of characters and then people will never see it.

Ingmar: where did your photos go? I actually preferred the personal approach with photos.

It’s still on my profile… Consider my new avatar a temporary placeholder of sorts until I find a new photo I like 😊

Thanks Lisa, Ingmar. I actually prefer photo’s. On all of our sites we disable avatars and encourage people to upload real photo’s. It’s a cultural thing. My avatar is based on my photo as well, as an adoption to the EE commmunity, but actually I would prefer to have photo’s, it’s more personal, and in 2010 I regard it as more professional as well. Anyways, just a side note.

About this:

we’d like to hide the whole ‘my account’ section in EE

So in EE 2.0 somehting like this:
Can access My Account: No

Only people who can administrate member accounts can use this section to maintain details of members.

Any suggestion? Or is it already possible with a hidden configuration setting???