User and group DB records with protected set to 1 having no effect

[perryholden]

I am using laravel-authentication-acl 1.3 with Laravel 5.3 running on PHP7.

Per the documentation, users and groups can be restricted from the admin UI by setting the DB record's 'protected' field to '1'. Unless I am misunderstanding the documentation, I would think that this restricts specific users from logging into the admin portion. However, setting these values in the DB have no effect on logging into the admin panel.

It appears that both the user login and admin login screens call the same SentryAuthenticator::authenticate method, and the protected value does not seem to be taken into account.

Is this an issue, or am I missing something?