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Changelog Entry

Description

This PR adds the functionality of assigning a role to a user via trusted header exaclty the same way, is it is already possible for OAuth. Therfore the oauth function is extracted and reused.

After the PR gets merged, I'll update the docs repo.

Added

• Support user role assignment via trusted header

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