Add warning that LocalUsernamesToLowerCase doesn't convert 'username' external IDs

The local username is the username that is used to login into the Gerrit
Web UI and is stored as external ID with the 'gerrit' scheme.

Usernames for SSH are stored as external IDs with the 'username' scheme.
Those are not touched by the LocalUsernamesToLowerCase program and
Gerrit doesn't provide any tool convert them to lower case.

Clarify this since in the past some users wrongly thought they could set
`auth.userNameToLowerCase` to true when they run the
LocalUsernamesToLowerCase program. This is not true since
`auth.userNameToLowerCase` is about external IDs in scheme 'username'
and LocalUsernamesToLowerCase is about external IDs in scheme 'gerrit'.

Change-Id: I862f55101039db55e927fd8c6487447c69f67a9a
Signed-off-by: Edwin Kempin <ekempin@google.com>
2 files changed
tree: 557c9f5b19ddadf2807801cc1819a00decf66217
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  2. antlr3/
  3. contrib/
  4. Documentation/
  5. gerrit-gwtdebug/
  6. gerrit-gwtui/
  7. gerrit-gwtui-common/
  8. gerrit-plugin-gwtui/
  9. java/
  10. javatests/
  11. lib/
  12. plugins/
  13. polygerrit-ui/
  14. prolog/
  15. prologtests/
  16. proto/
  17. resources/
  18. tools/
  19. webapp/
  20. .bazelproject
  21. .bazelrc
  22. .editorconfig
  23. .git-blame-ignore-revs
  24. .gitignore
  25. .gitmodules
  26. .mailmap
  27. .pydevproject
  28. BUILD
  29. COPYING
  30. INSTALL
  31. README.md
  32. SUBMITTING_PATCHES
  33. version.bzl
  34. WORKSPACE
README.md

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