[feat](trx-config): let secrets live outside the config file

Tokens and passphrases had exactly one representation: plain text in
trx-rs.toml.  That is awkward for config-management tools, for a config kept in
a private repo, and for anything shared between machines.

Two alternatives:

- ${VAR} anywhere in a config string, expanded from the environment at load.
  An unset variable is an error rather than an empty string — a silently blank
  passphrase is how authentication gets disabled by accident.
- A *_file sibling for every credential: [listen.auth].tokens_file,
  [[remotes]].auth.token_file, [frontends.http.auth].rx_passphrase_file and
  .control_passphrase_file, [frontends.http_json.auth].tokens_file.  Setting
  both forms is an error rather than a guess about which wins.

Plus a nudge: a config file that holds credentials inline and is readable by
group or others gets a warning naming the chmod that fixes it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SyX26FCpMQxiBoC7r5K1A7
Signed-off-by: Stan Grams <sjg@haxx.space>
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@@ -18,3 +18,6 @@ trx-core = { path = "../trx-core" }
trx-decode-log = { path = "../decoders/trx-decode-log" }
trx-reporting = { path = "../trx-reporting" }
serde_ignored = "0.1"
[dev-dependencies]
tempfile = "3"