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Improve hyrax/seed/setup.json user creation (no hardcoded passwords, added Shibboleth support)
Creating users via `hyrax/seed/setup.json` currently requires putting hardcoded credentials into `setup.json`. Since this is a potential security issue, we have decided to remove the support for setting passwords at all through this file. Since `User` objects don't support a `nil` password, we will now simply generate a random 32 byte / 256 bit "password" (which may contain non-printable characters). These passwords are not meant to be used/entered anyway, since login for all users (including admins) is supposed to use either Shibboleth or ORCID. However, since RDMS/Hyrax requires at least one admin user to exist at the first startup in order to create the `CRC_1280_COLLECTION` and the corresponding `crc_1280_manager` and `crc_1280_member` roles, this commit also adds support for pre-seeding Shibboleth accounts via `hyrax/seed/setup.json`. Note that these users are primarily identified through their `uid` attribute, which contains their Pairwise ID obtained from the Shibboleth IDP, and *not* their email address. In fact, if the user's name or email address changes on the IDP, the corresponding values in RDMS's user database will be updated/replaced automatically with the new values obtained from the IDP.
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