'Activation failed' when entering an activation key #21654
Description
Bug Description
copy/paste from an email resulted in 'Activation failed' when activating an activation key
i've seen this kind of thing before so i knew what to do next, i opened vi and pasted the key there, then copy/pasted from the terminal to the activation popup and it accepted the activation key
i'm not sure what extra characters are there when copying from an email, maybe an eol or something? in any case, maybe such a character can be recognized as acceptable knowing that folks will try copying the key from an email sometimes
To Reproduce
This is tricky, I requested an activation key for my homelab deployment, which arrived in 'mailu', a self-hosted email. I copy/pasted from there.
Expected behavior
It would have been nice if I didn't have to paste to vi, then copy/paste from there, to get rid of whatever extra characters must have been copied from the email. Someone else might not have known to do that as a workaround.
Debug Info
Debug info
core
- n8nVersion: 1.116.2
- platform: docker (self-hosted)
- nodeJsVersion: 22.18.0
- nodeEnv: production
- database: sqlite
- executionMode: regular
- concurrency: -1
- license: enterprise (production)
- consumerId: 95b552da-cb8f-44ac-b729-6c80bcb46ed1
storage
- success: all
- error: all
- progress: false
- manual: true
- binaryMode: memory
pruning
- enabled: true
- maxAge: 336 hours
- maxCount: 10000 executions
client
- userAgent: mozilla/5.0 (windows nt 10.0; win64; x64) applewebkit/537.36 (khtml, like gecko) chrome/141.0.0.0 safari/537.36
- isTouchDevice: false
Generated at: 2025-11-08T19:00:10.140Z
Operating System
kubernetes v1.32.8
n8n Version
1.116.2
Node.js Version
22.18.0
Database
SQLite (default)
Execution mode
main (default)
Hosting
n8n cloud