authenticate with a custom username field (rather than email)

[ramsestom]

I tried to use the field username of my users table for the authentication instead of email. So I changed "usernameField": "email", to "usernameField": "username", in default.json

But when I try to create a new user with username/password, I have this error returned by the server:

info: error: authentication - Method: create: Missing credentials
error:  Error
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Development\feathers\grapevine-server\node_modules\feathers-errors\lib\index.js:64:27)
    at Module._compile (module.js:571:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:488:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:447:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:439:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:498:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Development\feathers\grapevine-server\node_modules\feathers-rest\lib\wrappers.js:13:23)
    at Module._compile (module.js:571:32)

any idea of what might be the problem?

[snewell92]

In your users.hooks.js does it add the authentication(...) hook on create?

[ramsestom]

The problem was actually that I had an env variable called "USERNAME" on windows and it messed up with feathers.js on runtime. Problem solved by escaping the "username" value with "\" in my default.json file (so "usernameField": "\\username").

[realdubb]

Thanks @ramsestom your solution worked for me!

[enyineer]

Thanks alot @ramsestom ! That really saved me some time.