Cannot login with MxAdmin after release 3.5.0 when converting to lowercase

[mgroeneweg]

MxAdmin login used to work even with converting to lowercase. Now login with MxAdmin is no longer possible. Workaround is to use the login.html.

[JelteMX]

@edwinmp could you have a look at this?

[edwinmp]

@mgroeneweg Configuring the widget to convert to lowercase requires you to have set a limitation somewhere in your project code for all usernames to be lowercase since the widget will convert all usernames to lowercase before attempting to login. So in your case, the username MxAdmin will be converted to mxadmin, not just on the input but before the credentials are submitted, therefore login will fail since Mendix usernames are case sensitive
If this wasn't the case before, then that was a bug.
My suggestion is to either disable the lowercase setting on the widget, or commit to only using lowercase usernames.

[mgroeneweg]

@edwinmp Customer does not want case sensitive user names so we convert to lowercase, in the widget and in the account detail pages. Result is similar to case insensitive account names.

I will stick with the workaround to use login.html to log in as MxAdmin.

[edwinmp]

@mgroeneweg On deployment, the Admin username is based on the one you have set in the Project Security settings in the modeler. So if you can afford to take down your app for a few minutes, I suggest you change that username to mxadmin, commit and create a new deployment package. That should keep things nice & consistent, and you won't have to resort to using login.html.