Fix passport auth

[Aryan0819]

Related Issue

• Closes: The Passport-Local Hidden Password Trap #472

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Description

The Architectural Context:*
Security best practices dictate that sensitive fields like passwords should be excluded from standard database query responses to prevent accidental exposure down the network line (e.g., logging or sending data payloads back to the frontend UI). This is handled via Mongoose's field selection control (select: false).

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• New feature
• Code style update
• Breaking change
• Documentation update

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• backend/config/passportConfig.js
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