I run scripts with 2 accounts: bot and admin bot
Both accounts have botpasswords defined
$ python3 pwb.py login Logged in on wikipedia:pl as MastiBot.admin. (venv) [mst@mort core]$ python3 pwb.py login -user:mastiBot Logging in to wikipedia:pl as MastiBot@mastiBot Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/mst/pw3/core/pywikibot/data/api.py", line 2990, in login_to_site response['messagecode'] == 'login-throttled' KeyError: 'messagecode' During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "pwb.py", line 363, in <module> if not main(): File "pwb.py", line 358, in main file_package) File "pwb.py", line 75, in run_python_file main_mod.__dict__) File "./scripts/login.py", line 151, in <module> main() File "./scripts/login.py", line 139, in main site.login(autocreate=autocreate) File "/home/mst/pw3/core/pywikibot/tools/__init__.py", line 1478, in wrapper return obj(*__args, **__kw) File "/home/mst/pw3/core/pywikibot/site/_apisite.py", line 404, in login if login_manager.login(retry=True, autocreate=autocreate): File "/home/mst/pw3/core/pywikibot/login.py", line 312, in login self.login_to_site() File "/home/mst/pw3/core/pywikibot/data/api.py", line 2998, in login_to_site 'handled:\n{}'.format(response)) pywikibot.exceptions.CaptchaError: Captcha encountered which cannot be handled: {'result': 'Aborted', 'reason': 'Cannot log in when using MediaWiki\\Session\\BotPasswordSessionProvider sessions.'} CRITICAL: Exiting due to uncaught exception <class 'pywikibot.exceptions.CaptchaError'>
$ python --version Python 3.6.8
$ python3 pwb.py version Pywikibot: [git@github.com:masti0] (93ca9c1, g14433, 2021/03/16, 15:48:38, OUTDATED) Release version: 6.1.0.dev0 requests version: 2.25.1 cacerts: /home/mst/pw3/core/venv/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/certifi/cacert.pem certificate test: ok Python: 3.6.8 (default, Aug 13 2020, 07:46:32) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-39)] PYWIKIBOT_DIR: Not set PYWIKIBOT_DIR_PWB: PYWIKIBOT_NO_USER_CONFIG: Not set Config base dir: /home/mst/pw3/core Usernames for family "wikipedia": *: MastiBot.admin
on other machine "main" user is mastiBot and situation is exactly same but with reversed users