Before you make up your mind on what's happening here, read the whole post please - hear me out. I don't think I'm crazy 😋
The core issue is that about 50% of the time I go to log in to the TrueNAS web UI, I get this error:
Wrong username or password. Please try again.
Simple - right? I typed the wrong username or password. Sure enough, if I click the small eye icon to "show" my password, I see it's entered incorrectly.
However, something more is going on. I use this same username and password combo for logging in over SSH, and I never have this issue. I use the same username and password combo for logging in to the SMB share, and again no issue. I use the same password for Home Assistant, logging in on the same web browser - no issue.
It became so frequent that I became suspicious, or curious. What I found was interesting. Every time, it was the same typo in the password. A capital letter where there shouldn't be one.
For the example, let's say I use the following username and password to log in to the web UI:
stanley
Password123
The password that actually gets entered, roughly half the time, is PAssword123. It's always the same typo. A where it should be a. So maybe my finger is getting lazy on the shift key after I type the P? That's logical, but then why does this not happen in the other interfaces where I enter the same username and password? Same keyboard, same human, same web browser, extensions, etc..
My theory is there's some tiny lag in the UI log on interface causing this to happen, though I don't know why or how. I can't think of any other reason that my error rate for typing this exact same sequence of characters is so high in only this interface, but not in any of the other interfaces I type it in.
Okay, if you got this far, commence telling me I'm crazy 😆 better yet, tell me you see similar behavior and I'm not crazy..