After deleting password.lwp, it was unable to login with right username and rights.
Move action then fails.
To recover, I tried replace.py, who asked for a password, and then movepages.py was OK again.
Looks like replace.py has superpowers compared to movepages.py
user@pc:~/python/core {master}$ python scripts/movepages.py -pairs:pairs.txt -summary:"Bot request: move after Index move" -noredirect -pt:0
Moving page [[Page:Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 1809-v01-Jan-Jun.djvu/1]] to [[Page:Repository of Arts, Series 1, Volume 01, 1809, January-June.djvu/1]]
WARNING: API warning (tokens): action=tokens has been deprecated. Please use action=query&meta=tokens instead.
Action 'move' is not allowed for the current user
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "scripts/movepages.py", line 283, in <module>
main()
File "scripts/movepages.py", line 271, in main
bot.moveOne(page, pair[1])
File "scripts/movepages.py", line 80, in moveOne
deleteAndMove=self.getOption('noredirect'))
File "/home/user/python/core/pywikibot/tools.py", line 315, in wrapper
return method(*args, **kw)
File "/home/user/python/core/pywikibot/page.py", line 1458, in move
noredirect=deleteAndMove)
File "/home/user/python/core/pywikibot/site.py", line 3606, in movepage
token = self.tokens['move']
File "/home/user/python/core/pywikibot/site.py", line 1168, in getitem
storage = self.site._tokens.setdefault(self.site.user(), {})
KeyError: 'move'
<type 'exceptions.KeyError'>
CRITICAL: Waiting for 1 network thread(s) to finish. Press ctrl-c to abort
Version: core-(2.0)
Severity: normal