Option to bypass media access control

The problem is described in the Limitations sections in the module page. The problem is this module authorizes access to a single entity, for example a node. However, it doesn't give access to the entities linked from that node. In your case, the module give access to a node but not to the related medias.

How to fix this? I think is not an easy fix, because that's how the Drupal permissions systems works: visitors needs access to any entity that the user wants to see. And that's ok, is a good approach. This module would need to scan the node and give access to all the related entities. This seems a hard task and also could be a security problem (how deep this process would traverse the relations? Potentially, it can give access to everything).

I've always used it in sites where the media was public so I didn't face your issue.

Thank you for your reply, I used this code to auto login user and gain access to media files in a custom module.

            $uid=2;
            $user = User::load($uid);
            $username = $user->getAccountName();
            user_login_finalize($user);
            \Drupal::messenger()->addMessage(t('You are logged in as ' . $username ));

I'm glad you found a way to achieve what you need, thanks for posting back.

I'm closing this as "won't fix" because the fix seems hard. However, if anyone has a solution for this that overcomes the issues stated at https://www.drupal.org/project/node_authlink/issues/3387236#comment-1525... ✨ Option to bypass media access control Active please reopen this and will discuss the proposed approach.