Log failed logins and refused tokens, address first
release / release (push) Failing after 17s

For Guard's steward preset and fail2ban: msg="login failed" ip=... user=...
and msg="token refused" ip=..., beside the audit records.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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database when it starts, and an older one refuses a database a newer one
has upgraded: restore a backup to go back.
## Failed logins in the journal
A failed login to the web UI or the API, and a refused API token, are
written to the journal as well as the audit log, with the address first:
```
level=WARN msg="login failed" ip=203.0.113.9 user=admin reason="wrong username or password"
level=WARN msg="token refused" ip=203.0.113.9 reason="wrong token secret"
```
Guard's `steward` preset, or a fail2ban filter, can ban such addresses at
the firewall (with Housecarl's ban lists). The address comes before the
user name, which a caller chooses, so a pattern anchored on
`msg="login failed" ip=` can't be fooled by a name. With `log.format:
json` they are JSON objects with the same fields in the same order.
## Checks
`stewardd check` validates the configuration in the database against