[Phpwebsite-developers] allow_access: no access for non-admins?

[Ulf H. <U1...@ul...>]

Hi,

Users of my site are grouped in admins and non-admins.
I was wondering why non-admins would not be allowed to views documents  
which are stored in the doc manager,
although related rights have been granted in the group settings.

docmanager.php reads:
if(... $_SESSION['OBJ_user']->allow_access("documents", "view_document"))
..... allow viewing.

mod/users/class/users.php reads:

function allow_access($mod_title, $subright=NULL){
    if ($this->isDeity())
      return TRUE;

    if ($this->admin_switch)
      if ($this->checkUserPermission($mod_title, $subright, TRUE))
                return TRUE;

    return FALSE;
  }

This tells me that, no matter which rights are granted, users do never 
have access to actions unless their admin flag is set. If this is a bug, 
I could easily go and fix it (by commenting "if ($this->admin_switch)"?) 
But as the latest version still includes this function in the same way, 
I find it hard to believe that a bug like this would be able to survive 
for a notable time.

 - what am I missing....?

Thanks for any advice

Ulf