I'm guessing that the lack of proper ssh key support is part of the desire to have nothing permanent on the device. Since one of the security aspects is to make it so that if you lose the machine, you have no risk of compromising your information. Having your private key stored on the machine kind of defeats that purpose.

That being said: when I was playing with dev builds on my netbook last year, the first thing I did was put my private key on it.

That's a very good point, I hadn't thought of it from that perspective.

Though you could refer to SSH keys which are on a USB drive, fully protecting your info if your laptop is lost (as long as your drive wasn't plugged in)...

compgen: http://pastebin.com/Mkyv9990

Though I think you're misunderstanding this machine as both a developer machine and something more than just a browser. Chrome is really the only app. That I can get to a terminal at all is a huge surprise to me, I don't believe this is supposed to compete with normal laptops as dev machines. I didn't expect this to have ssh installed at all.

As a matter of fact I can't figure out how to (or if I can) copy/paste in the shell, I scp'd that somewhere else so I could post it.

Oh, I fully understand the disconnect there. I'm just interested in how far this thing can be bent, and how easily. And this was the first thing I came up with, however poor it may be.

Thanks much for the (sc)paste!

edit: wow, there's not much there, is there? The only text editor I see is qemacs, which I've never touched: http://man.cx/qemacs and no clue on copy / paste.