[12:10:26] <Lucas_WMDE>	 Masterphi: ah, you might have been affected by https://github.com/mediawiki-utilities/python-mwapi/issues/35
[12:10:33] <Lucas_WMDE>	 I should’ve remembered that, sorry
[12:10:48] <Lucas_WMDE>	 mwapi is useful for parameter encoding and some other stuff but its login method isn’t great :|
[12:11:22] <Lucas_WMDE>	 (the comment there about `.login.result` might also be relevant)
[18:05:57] <Masterphi>	 Lucas_WMDE: I still get `writeapidenied: You're not allowed to edit this wiki through the API` when using the workaround listed in the issue you listed
[18:06:32] <Masterphi>	 which is weird, since I'm hitting the `login` action
[18:09:44] <Masterphi>	 is there a special permission that I need granted to the user to be able to use Bot Passwords?
[18:13:23] <Reedy>	 Shouldn't specifically..
[18:18:43] <AntiComposite>	 * has to have writeapi to be able to login through the API
[18:19:16] <Masterphi>	 is that a server configuration, or something that can be changed on my user?
[18:19:20] <AntiComposite>	 the writeapi right was removed in 1.43 for that reason https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T294397 but https://wiki.mozilla.org/Special:Version is 1.39.10
[18:19:23] <AntiComposite>	 https://wiki.mozilla.org/Special:ListGroupRights
[18:19:38] <AntiComposite>	 no, that's something you'd have to talk to the server administrator(s) about
[18:21:09] <Reedy>	 But the users group gets it...
[18:21:27] <Masterphi>	 Yeah, it seems writeapi is given to a bunch of groups
[18:21:42] <AntiComposite>	 logging in with the api is a write action
[18:21:51] <AntiComposite>	 and if you're not logged in, you're not in the users group
[18:22:11] <Masterphi>	 lol
[18:22:13] <Masterphi>	 i see
[18:22:16] <Reedy>	 yeah, that stupid edge case
[18:22:18] <Reedy>	 super secure
[18:23:20] <Reedy>	 Yeah, as AntiComposite says, go shout at their people with server access :P
[18:26:23] <Masterphi>	 which is like.... 1 person right now ugh
[18:26:41] <Masterphi>	 but this is progress. Thanks ya'll!!!
[18:29:21] <Reedy>	 It's a one line change for them
[18:29:52] <Masterphi>	 upgrading to the newer version?
[18:30:23] <Reedy>	 Nope
[18:30:34] <Reedy>	 Depending on what they've done... They probably just need to remove one line from their LocalSettings.php
[18:31:21] <Reedy>	 https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/REL1_39/includes/MainConfigSchema.php#L7627
[18:31:28] <Reedy>	 They almost certainly have a line like...
[18:31:40] <Reedy>	 $wgGroupPermissions['*']['writeapi'] = false;
[18:31:45] <Reedy>	 They just need to remove that
[18:36:35] <Masterphi>	 Reedy : Aight, sending this info to SRE. Thank you so much for the details! Saved me A LOT of time <3