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### What?
`auth` enabled collections show "Password" fields whenever a GraphQL
query is performed or the GraphQL playground is opened (see #8032)
You can reproduce this behavior by spinning up the `admin` test with
PostgreSQL:
```bash
pnpm dev:postgres admin
```
Open the admin UI and navigate to the `dev@payloadcms.com` document in
the `Users` collection (see screenshot below)
<img width="915" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/40624a8f-80b7-412b-b851-5e3643ffcae1">
Open the [GraphQL
playground](http://localhost:3000/api/graphql-playground)
Open the admin UI and select the user again. The password field appears
multiple times.
Subsequent GraphQL playground page refreshes lead to even more password
fields in the admin UI.
<img width="1086" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/009264bd-b153-4bf7-8fc9-8e465fc27247">
The current behavior has an impact during development and even on
production. Since the password field is added to the collection, payload
tries to add this field to the database as well (at least I could
observe at in my own project)
### Why?
In the `packages/graphql/src/schema/initCollections.ts` file, the
`initCollections` function mutates the config object by adding the
password field for the GraphQL schema (line 128). This mutation adds the
field multiple times, depending how often you open the playground. In
addition, this added field is also shown in the UI since the config
object is shared (see screenshot above).
### How?
By creating a deep copy of the object, the mutation of the configuration
does not leak additional fields to the UI or other parts of the code.
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