"username" cannot be used as local strategy usernameField

[Creiger]

When i override local strategy settings with "usernameField" : "username", it does not work. If i use any other fieldname, it works. Is this some restriction?

[marshallswain]

@Creiger not that I know of. Have you done any debugging to figure out the cause? If you can publish a repo with a breaking example we could be more helpful.

[sean-nicholas]

Same here. When I'm calling app.get('auth') it looks like this:

{
    "local": {
        "usernameField": "Sean"
    }
}

It seems my config "usernameField": "username" is getting replaced by my computer username

EDIT: Found the issue: https://github.com/feathersjs/feathers-configuration/blob/master/src/index.js#L28
EDIT2: I'm using windows, maybe linux does not export the username in env

[ekryski]

Wat! Ok thanks for the hunting @sean-nicholas. It's an issue with feathers-config or something that should be guarded against on windows. @Creiger are you running on windows?

[Creiger]

@ekryski Yes, i am also running on Windows.

[sean-nicholas]

@Creiger There is actually a way to escape configs with \\ and therefore feathers does not look them up in the environment

{
    "local": {
        "usernameField": "\\username"
    }
}

[daffl]

I totally forgot about this! Thank you @sean-nicholas. It't is also documented here:

If the value starts with a , do none of the above two

So I think we can close this.