Wildcard user unusable in isolation ("Set password: HTTP error: 404 Not Found")

[kousu]

I cannot set up a group with only the wildcard user:

$ galenectl create-group -group abcd
$ galenectl create-user -group abcd -wildcard
$ cat groups/abcd.json 
{"wildcard-user":{"permissions":"present"}}
$ galenectl set-password -group abcd -wildcard
New password: 
2026/03/15 20:47:12 Set password: HTTP error: 404 Not Found

Adding a non-wildcard user first allows managing the password of the wildcard user:

$ galenectl create-user -group abcd -user defg
$ cat groups/abcd.json 
{"users":{"defg":{"permissions":"present"}},"wildcard-user":{"permissions":"present"}}
$ galenectl set-password -group abcd -wildcard
New password: 
$ cat groups/abcd.json 
{"users":{"defg":{"permissions":"present"}},"wildcard-user":{"password":{"type":"bcrypt","key":"$2a$08$mGYv6ZVi4L3w/9abiwnE0ORLlbGda4SxnjO0YXgpLAS5uCgV4afEG"},"permissions":"present"}}

I want to ask if it is intended that a group must have at least one real user. The docs say

galene/galene.md

Lines 259 to 277 in a4c917f

	#### The fallback user
	It is sometimes useful to allow multiple users to log in using the same
	password. This can be achieved by defining the *wildcard* user:
	```sh
	galenectl create-user -group city-watch -wildcard
	galenectl set-password -group city-watch -wildcard
	```
	For open groups, where any user can login with any password, the wildcard
	user's password is set to the password of type `wildcard`:
	```sh
	galenectl set-password -group city-watch -wildcard -type wildcard
	```
	See the section *Client authorisation* below for more information about
	password types.

which sounds too me like fully anonymous-access rooms should be allowed, if the admin sets them up.

If this is intended behaviour, it would be clearer if create-user failed with a clear explanation instead of discovering the problem at set-password

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This is with this version: 888aa9b.

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