[SOLVED] Shield getPermissions returns an empty array

I'm using the following spark command to create three default users for testing purposes:

PHP Code:

<?php

namespace App\Commands;

use CodeIgniter\CLI\BaseCommand;
use CodeIgniter\CLI\CLI;

use CodeIgniter\Shield\Entities\User;

class SettingsCommand extends BaseCommand
{
    protected $group = 'Setup';

    protected $name = 'setup:initial';

    protected $description = 'Initializes assorted defaults';

    protected $usage = 'setup:initial';

    public function run(array $params)
    {

    helper('setting');

 setting('Auth.allowRegistration', false);

 $this->registerUser([
 'username' => 'admin',
 'email' => '[email protected]',
 'password' => 'omgapassword',
 ], 'superadmin');

 $this->registerUser([
 'name_first' => 'JANE',
 'name_last' => 'DOE',
 'title_job' => 'Big Boss',
 'username' => 'boss',
 'email' => '[email protected]',
 'password' => 'omgapassword',
 ], 'admin');

 $this->registerUser([
 'name_first' => 'Jane',
 'name_last' => 'Doe',
 'title_job' => 'Little Cog',
 'username' => 'user',
 'email' => '[email protected]',
 'password' => 'omgapassword',
 ], 'user');
    }

    private function registerUser($data, $group)
    {
    $users = auth()->getProvider();
 $user = new User($data);
 $users->save($user);
 $user = $users->findById($users->getInsertID());
 $user->syncGroups($group);
    }
} 


After successful login, I land on my homepage which issues:

PHP Code:

print_r(auth()->user()->getPermissions()); 


However, the output is an empty array. Shouldn't this be an array with all the default permissions for shield for the particular group type of the user (I realize that the user group is empty, I'm getting the same result for admin and superadmin)? I'm also using a custom UserModel class that provides the extra fields: name_first, name_last, title_job

Same issue as described in this post.

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