Updating error message when using BotPasswords and 2FA through to AWB login
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Description

List of steps to reproduce (step by step, including full links if applicable):

  • Logging into AWB using 2FA account

What happens?:

Failed to login into AWB, pop up message "Failed"

What should have happened instead?:

Would expect some guidance on what may have failed, at least something more informative if it is available to how I can resolve the issue faced. This is an unknown dead end.

In the end I went through Special:BotPasswords and reset the password which led to a successful login.
[I have subsequently found that when I linked the SUL account for foundation.wikimedia.org it has seen that as a password change and that a reset of the bot password is required] So the question is there a specified error message from the system that AWB could replicate? is there the ability to a pointer to MW https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Bot_passwords or somewhere as a check to how to fix things.

Software version (if not a Wikimedia wiki), browser information, screenshots, other information, etc:

Current version available via "check for updates"

Event Timeline

Also noting that I had a similar issue with Pywikibot and its response in fail to login was equally confusing as it was talking about api changes for login with breaking changes. So it lead me off on a bit of a wild goose chase.