Views module: How to limit access by user I'm using the Views module to create a view that only specific users should be able to access.  I know that Views includes access control by role or permissions, but I need something more fine-grained: Basically, I want to be able to say only user "x" and user "y" can access a particular view (or else someone with a site administrator role). So this would function very similar to how ACL module acts for individual nodes.

Is the best approach to create a custom views access plugin?  I don't have much experience with this.

Also, I'm wondering about using an argument with some validation to accomplish this (so that I don't have to create dozens of separate views). For instance, since this view will be a tab on a specific node path, I'm wondering about setting up a user reference field on that node that specifies who could see the view. I'd just need a way for the view to only validate if the current user equals a user specified in the user reference field.

Any ideas?  Or am I making this more complicated than it needs to be?

Thanks,
Ben
Try the Views Access Callback module.


  Provides callback-based access control for Views.
  
  Available callback functions are defined by modules using hook_views_access_callbacks() function (in the same way as in hook_perm()), then could be set in the view's "Access restrictions" configuration.