fix: reject duplicate usernames in the user configuration

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Refs #685

Problem

When the same username appears more than once (an env user and a users-file user, or twice in one list), the duplicates are accepted silently and the first occurrence wins. An admin editing a second entry to change a password or add TOTP would not see it take effect.

Change

• ParseUsers now fails startup with an error naming the duplicated username, instead of silently ignoring the later entry.

Behaviour change

A configuration with a duplicate username now fails fast rather than silently picking one entry.

Testing

• make vet, go test -race ./... pass.
• Tests: the same username twice is rejected (named); distinct usernames still load.

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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• Bug Fixes
  • User lists with duplicate usernames now return an error; lists with distinct usernames continue to load successfully.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

ParseUsers now tracks parsed usernames and returns an error when it encounters an exact duplicate. Tests check duplicate rejection and successful parsing of distinct usernames.

Changes

Duplicate username validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track and reject duplicate usernames internal/utils/user_utils.go, internal/utils/user_utils_test.go	ParseUsers records each parsed username and returns an error if it has already been seen. Tests check that repeated usernames produce an error and distinct usernames load successfully.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0f75f

The current behavior is correct, but a future regression could again allow duplicate usernames across configuration sources. This is a narrow gap that can be addressed with a focused test.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

internal/utils/user_utils_test.go (1)

13-25: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a cross-source duplicate test.

The duplicate test uses inline configuration only. The combined GetUsers test uses distinct usernames, so the tests would not detect a regression that accepts the same username from configuration and the users file.

Suggested fix

 	assert.NoError(t, err)
 
 	assert.Len(t, *users, 3)
+
+	_, err = utils.GetUsers([]string{"user1:" + hash}, tmpDir+"/tinyauth_users_test.txt", noAttrs)
+	assert.ErrorContains(t, err, `duplicate user "user1"`)
 
 	usernames := map[string]bool{}

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Review comment at @internal/utils/user_utils_test.go around lines 13 - 25:
Extend TestGetUsersRejectsDuplicates to verify GetUsers rejects the same
username supplied by inline configuration and the users file; use the existing
test setup to create the file entry and assert the duplicate-user error.

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Review comments at @internal/utils/user_utils_test.go:
- Around line 13-25: Extend TestGetUsersRejectsDuplicates to verify GetUsers
rejects the same username supplied by inline configuration and the users file;
use the existing test setup to create the file entry and assert the
duplicate-user error.

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