fix: reject invalid user password hashes at startup

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Refs #685

Problem

Configured local users (TINYAUTH_AUTH_USERS / users file) are loaded without validating the password field, and bcrypt ignores any bytes after a complete 60-char hash. A malformed, truncated, or trailing-garbage hash is accepted silently and only surfaces later as a confusing failed login with no startup signal.

Change

• GetUsers/ParseUsers now verify each password is exactly one well-formed bcrypt hash (prefix, cost, and the 22-char salt + 31-char base64 body) and fail startup naming the user.
• The ParseUser primitive is unchanged, so the user verify and generate-totp commands that call it directly keep working.

Behaviour change

A user whose hash is malformed now stops startup instead of loading an account that can never authenticate. That account was already non-functional; this surfaces it immediately.

Testing

• make vet, go test -race ./... pass.
• Tests: a plaintext password, a well-shaped-but-malformed body ($2a$10$+53×!), a valid hash with trailing bytes (all rejected, user named), and a valid hash + TOTP (loads).

From the #685 startup-issues thread; a small hardening follow-up, independent of the four fix PRs. It touches the same file as one of them, so a trivial rebase may be needed depending on merge order.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • User entries loaded through the user-list parser are rejected if their passwords are plaintext or contain malformed, noncanonical, or extra-character bcrypt hashes. The error identifies the affected username.
  • Valid bcrypt hashes in the supported $2a$, $2b$, and $2y$ formats continue to load, including when a TOTP secret is present.

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ParseUsers now rejects passwords that do not match the canonical bcrypt hash format. Tests cover malformed passwords, username-specific errors, TOTP secrets, and accepted $2a$, $2b$, and $2y$ hashes.

Changes

Password hash validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Hash validation and user parsing internal/utils/user_utils.go, internal/utils/user_utils_test.go	isBcryptHash checks hash length, version, cost, payload characters, and canonical ending bits. ParseUsers returns a username-specific error for invalid hashes. Tests cover invalid inputs and accepted bcrypt variants.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to d9dac

The change makes startup reject malformed bcrypt password hashes and name the affected user. The two earlier concerns, about non-canonical prefixes and invalid final checksum characters, are reported as addressed and covered by tests. No remaining merge risk is identified.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @internal/utils/user_utils.go:
- Line 90: Update isBcryptHash to explicitly validate the supported bcrypt
version tag, both `$` delimiters, and the two cost digits before accepting a
hash; retain the existing body validation.
- Around line 94-98: Update isBcryptHash to reject bcrypt hashes whose final
salt or checksum characters have noncanonical Base64 tail bits, in addition to
validating the alphabet. Add regression cases confirming GetUsers rejects a
noncanonical final salt character and a checksum ending in H where the canonical
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