Hello,

As far as I understand, the current hide/forbid feature of Modules allows to:

• Hide/forbid a given module for all users (with soft and hard options)
• Prevent the hide/forbid mechanism for given UNIX user/group with the --not-user/--not-group options

Let's consider the following situation:

1. By default all users (user1, user2, ..., user1000) have visibility/access to all modules (module1, module2, ..., module999)
2. A new module (module1000) is added
3. I want to restrict visbility/access to the new module1000 for user1000 only, how can I do it neatly?

My first thougths:

• The module-hide module1000 command will hide module1000 for all users, it is not what we want.
• By using --not-user I will have a very long file containing:

module-hide --not-user user1 module1000
module-hide --not-user user2 module1000
...
module-hide --not-user user999 module1000

with maintainability issue: when creating a new user I will have to add it to this .modulerc file otherwise module1000 will be hidden to him or when restricting access to another module.

Is there a solution that I miss with the current implementation of module-hide/module-forbid ?

If not, it would be nice to have an option to explictely hide/forbid a module to a given user/group like module-hide --for-user user1000 module1000. It will allow to handle the situation where hidden/forbid modules are a corner-cases and exceptions to very specific users/groups instead to be based on mutual exclusion.

Thank you in advance for your advice and let me know if further explanations are needed,

Best regards,