Custom access callbacks for user entities not being called

Question

I'm trying to implement some custom access control for user entities, in Drupal 7.

I've used hook_entity_info_alter to set

$entity_info['user']['access callback'] = 'MYMODULE_user_access_callback';

and when I call entity_get_info at a later point, I can see that this is still successfully set.

But MYMODULE_user_access_callback never ever seems to get called when I try to display users directly, or load Views of users.

It looks like the custom access callbacks are normally called from the entity_access function in entity.module. But the user_access function in user.module doesn't ever call them.

user_load in the user module calls entity_load, which calls entity_get_controller($entity_type)->load(...)

but this still doesn't seem to invoke entity_access.

So is setting 'access callback' for the user entity a wrong way to go about trying to implement custom user access control? Do I need to override UserController perhaps?

Answer 1

The problem might be the execution order of the modules

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