Thanks all, I managed to git 'r done. It still makes for some serious inconvenience when trying to do certain things, though. Frankly, I don't understand why the draconian login security measures in the first place. It's not like your data is going to be safe if someone gets physical access to your device, and in the highly unlikely event that some malware got installed it would be zapped the next time you reflash anyway. Remote attacks are highly unlikely in the mobile environment, considering the extremely limited amount of time to even notice that you're there, much less do anything about it. The Ubuntu approach to logins would have been a heck of a lot more appropriate. Mark
