API change?

Hello,

I just upgraded from 2.6.8 to 2.6.10, and noticed that the command line
interface now seems to require the password to be passed. I have another
application I've developed that creates/edits customer account
information (actually copies it over from SugarCRM). Up to this point,
my script has used the SQL-Ledger-$userid cookie to retrieve the current
sessionid set by SQL Ledger--it gets these values and passes them into
the ct.pl script. So the user must be logged in for this to work--but it
avoids collecting and passing the password in through a command line.

After the upgrade, this approach no longer seems to work. I have to pass
the login and password with each request.

Is this change by design? Is there a new preferred method for this?

Thanks,

-- 
John Locke
"Open Source Solutions for Small Business Problems"
published by Charles River Media, June 2004
http://www.freelock.com