Root cause of the "Failed to reach Gitea API" / 403 errors on every retry:
`gitea admin user change-password` (used in the already-exists branch to
sync the account's password to what the user just entered) defaults to
setting must_change_password=true, unlike `user create` which was already
pinned to --must-change-password=false. Once set, Gitea rejects every API
call — including the sync script's own token-authenticated calls — with
403 "You must change your password", even though the token itself and
GITEA_URL were both completely correct. Confirmed live via a direct curl
against /api/v1/user.
Pin the same flag on change-password that create already used.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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