Meteor.users.allow never fires, but Meteor.users.deny works

Question

I have a Meteor application with autopublish removed.

In this app, I want to allow administrators to crud any user, but other users should only be able to update their own. With a simple Meteor.users.allow, the update function never gets called (that I can tell), but if I user Meteor.users.deny and reverse the logic, it works fine.

There is only one Meteor.users.allow function in my app. I can live with using deny, but can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong with allow?

My allow function, which never logs anything:

console.log("Setting Meteor.users.allow");
Meteor.users.allow({
  insert: function (userId, doc) {
    // only admin can insert 
    var u = Meteor.users.findOne({_id:userId});
    return (u && u.isAdmin);
  },
  update: function (userId, doc, fields, modifier) {
    console.log("user "+userId+"wants to modify doc"+doc._id);
    if (userId && doc._id === userId) {
      console.log("user allowed to modify own account!");
      // user can modify own 
      return true;
    }
    // admin can modify any
    var u = Meteor.users.findOne({_id:userId});
    return (u && u.isAdmin);
  },
  remove: function (userId, doc) {
    // only admin can remove
    var u = Meteor.users.findOne({_id:userId});
    return (u && u.isAdmin);
  }
});

My deny function, which logs and works:

console.log("Setting Meteor.users.deny");
Meteor.users.deny({
  insert: function (userId, doc) {
    // only admin can insert 
    var u = Meteor.users.findOne({_id:userId});
    return !(u && u.isAdmin);
  },
  update: function (userId, doc, fields, modifier) {
    console.log("user "+userId+"wants to modify doc"+doc._id);
    if (userId && doc._id === userId) {
      console.log("user allowed to modify own account!");
      // user can modify own 
      return false;
    }
    // admin can modify any
    var u = Meteor.users.findOne({_id:userId});
    return !(u && u.isAdmin);
  },
  remove: function (userId, doc) {
    // only admin can remove
    var u = Meteor.users.findOne({_id:userId});
    return !(u && u.isAdmin);
  }
});

Answer 1

Did you make sure to put your Meteor.users.allow code in the server?

I was running into the same problem while using an allow in the client and not the server code.