dirigent and Ph2 ACF version numbers uploaded to Panthera are reset if Felis username/password are incorrect

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Summary

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Expected Result

dirgient version and Panthera version should be stored and 'remembered' regardless of how many times a user enters their username and password incorrectly

Actual Result

Ph2 ACF and dirigent version are uploaded as "unknown" when username and/or password are entered incorrectly, then entered correctly.

2025-10-22 16:20:13 INFO felis_handler - Uploading files for sequence 'ThresholdAdjustment_2000' to Panthera...
2025-10-22 16:20:13 INFO felis_handler - Passing version numbers dirigent: 4.0.0-4-gb8976db and Ph2 ACF: v6-20 to Panthera...
Please enter your username (enter 'exit' to abort): 
test
Please enter your password: 
****
FELIS LOG: Uploading metadata 

100%|███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 4.45k/4.45k [00:00<00:00, 8.33kB/s]
FELIS ERROR: Failed to create sequence entry. Panthera responded with status code 401 and response The username you entered has not been registered. 
 

2025-10-22 16:20:23 INFO felis_handler - Upload did not work. Try again
2025-10-22 16:20:23 INFO felis_handler - 
2025-10-22 16:20:23 INFO felis_handler - Uploading files for sequence 'ThresholdAdjustment_2000' to Panthera...
2025-10-22 16:20:23 INFO felis_handler - Passing version numbers dirigent: unknown and Ph2 ACF: unknown to Panthera...
Please enter your username (enter 'exit' to abort):

Steps to Reproduce

1. Successfully run a calibration with felis = true in the dirigent.toml file
2. Enter an incorrect username or password when prompted by Felis
3. Enter a correct username and password when reprompted

Checklist

Please note: depending on the issue, log files may be found either in your working directory, or in the Results_dirigent/ folder

• I have attached my dirigent.toml, instruments.json, and modules.json files
• I have attached the Ph2 ACF XML file
• I have attached the dirigent.log and status.log files
• I have zipped and attached the Ph2 ACF logs/ folder

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