Cannot enable MQTT authenticated mode for multiple users

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Description

MQTT_CHALLENGE_SECRET = {'foo': 'bar'}
MQTT_CHALLENGE_ROUNDS = 10000

MQTT_CHALLENGE_SECRET = 'foo'
MQTT_CHALLENGE_ROUNDS = 10000

Attempting to load configuration from /etc/pai/pai.conf
Error parsing configuration: Invalid value type <class 'dict'> for config argument MQTT_CHALLENGE_SECRET. Allowed are: [<class 'str'>, <class 'NoneType'>]

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Research direction

Investigate the configuration validation code, likely in 'pai.conf' or a config module, to see why MQTT CHALLENGE SECRET rejects a dict value. The error shows the parser expects str or None. To support multiple users, update the type allowance to include dict, and adjust any code that uses the secret to handle both str and dict inputs. Look for existing config tests to add a test case with a dict.

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python

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backend

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1-3 hours

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PythonGit

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