I tried this on my own box, and it worked for me:

r...@roanlaptop:~/mediawiki$ wget http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
'--post-data=action=login&lgname=Catrope&lgpassword=Whee&format=xml'

r...@roanlaptop:~/mediawiki$ cat api.php
<?xml version="1.0"?><api><login result="WrongPass"
/></api>r...@roanlaptop:~/mediawiki$

r...@roanlaptop:~/mediawiki$ wget http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
'--post-data=action=login&lgname=Catrope&lgpassword=myrealpassword&format=xml'

r...@roanlaptop:~/mediawiki$ cat api.php
<?xml version="1.0"?><api><login result="Success" lguserid="4587601"
lgusername="Catrope" lgtoken="01d2a06cc88aaac0e302b6919838da56"
cookieprefix="enwiki" sessionid="8db0e034f8eca59183d604ba34fd96fa"
/></api>r...@roanlaptop:~/mediawiki$

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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