WebOS 1.3.1 and Auth Changes

I purchased my Palm Pre the morning it came out. Within a couple of days, people had already figured out how to gain root access to the underlying Linux operating system. I've setup access since that time (early June). Since that time, everything has worked great. Update after update, Palm has never tinkered with anything related to the SSH access. After I installed WebOS 1.3.1, all of a sudden I could no longer access my phone over SSH. Unlike all those iPhones that just got hacked because they had enabled root access with no password, I have direct root access over SSH disabled. I have a separate SSH user created, which is just security common sense. Unfortunately, it seems that Palm had updated the /etc/passwd file in the latest update which removed my SSH user. Had I left the system insecure, I could have still logged in with the root user, but I didn't. I don't recall how I initially enabled the root access, but I seem to recall that it required connecting the phone to my computer and it didn't work on Windows 7. So, that was going to require that I load up a virtual machine on my desktop and figure it out again. Instead, I was able to install the Terminal application from Preware and was able to get a root console that way. I don't know why Palm made this change, but I now see they also updated the hostname on the device for some reason. Before, the hostname was simply 'castle', which was the Pre's codename. Now the hostname shows as 'palm-webos-device'. Hopefully this is the last time Palm makes this change as I like having control over the phone.