"Default Access Level" is not applied when creating new article - it's always Access = "Guest"

[mirko-dugic]

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Browse to Backend -> System -> Global configuration -> Site
2. Set "Default Access Level" to any (e.g "Public"): http://prntscr.com/7nv1ix
3. Click "Save & Close"
4. Browse to Backend -> Content -> Article manager
5. Click "New"
6. Check "Access" at left column

Expected result

Access in articles should be follow settings in Global Configuration, in this case it should by "Public" by default.

Actual result

Access is set to "Guest" by default: http://prntscr.com/7nv29a

System information (as much as possible)

PHP Built On: Linux info 3.0 #1337 SMP Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 CEST 2000 all GNU/Linux
Database Version: 5.1.73-log
Database Collation: utf8_polish_ci
PHP Version: 5.4.42
Web Server: Apache
WebServer to PHP Interface: cgi-fcgi
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 3.4.2 Stable [ Ember ] 30-June-2015 12:00 GMT
Joomla! Platform Version: Joomla Platform 13.1.0 Stable [ Curiosity ] 24-Apr-2013 00:00 GMT
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0

Additional comments

It happened after upgrade from Joomla! 3.4.1 to 3.4.2

[brianteeman]

Thanks for reporting this. I am however closing it as we already have a solution #7313

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