This module provides permissions to view user profiles depending on what roles the profile requested to be viewed has. A companion module provides access to edit user profiles instead: https://www.drupal.org/project/edit_profiles_perms Instructions: Simply enable the module as usual, and go to admin/user/permissions to configure the permissions under the view_profiles_perms section Note that core's 'access user profiles' permission still applies, and will override any permission not set by this module.