initialising for ci-cd pipeline

Backend/smoke/smoke_common.py

@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ DEFAULTS = {
     "api": "http://localhost:5224/api/v1",
     "auth": "http://localhost:5602",
     "user": "admin@gmail.com",
-    "password": "Naveen@99",
+    # Deliberately no default: credentials never live in the repo (docs/40-DEPLOYMENT.md §5).
+    "password": None,
 }
 
 
@@ -46,7 +47,10 @@ def parse_args(description: str) -> argparse.Namespace:
     p = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=description)
     for key, default in DEFAULTS.items():
         p.add_argument(f"--{key}", default=os.environ.get(f"ERP_SMOKE_{key.upper()}", default))
-    return p.parse_args()
+    args = p.parse_args()
+    if not args.password:
+        p.error("no password given: set ERP_SMOKE_PASSWORD or pass --password")
+    return args
 
 
 class Response: