Been Busy, I see

TedCronin

You guys have been busy.  it would be nice to have user lookup, when someone asks for access.  If I have a layer that is not a published/public layer and someone requests access, I want a way to look them up before I decide whether they should get access.

Does this make sense?

TedCronin

Others have requested the ability to search for and view user profiles when users ask to join a group. However, we've not implemented any user search due to privacy concerns. We are currently working on adding a "description" property to the user profile. If the user allows this to be seen, we can expose this description to the group administrator when that user asks to join a group.

FYI, you can share items with everyone or share them with groups. You can't share items with individual users.

Mike
ArcGIS Online team

There is a way around this issue.  Off the top of my head I do not remember, but I was able to see that someone wanted to see the data.  I did not act to allow them access.  I then found a search capabilility where I could search for users to add myself. but if I then searched for the user wanting access, I could see their full name, thus then decide to either go back and accept their request or decline.  So for now this works for me.