> it would be neat if the plumber and thus auth/fgui could be pressed > into service for entering the pairing PIN.
I don't quite see the connection between plumber and fgui - doesn't fgui just read directly from /mnt/factotum/needkey? At present there's a needkey-like mechanism for PINs - the equivalent of fgui is this simple rc loop: while (bd=`{read </net/bt/pinreq}) { echo -n enter PIN for device `{grep $bd /net/bt/devices} ' : ' pin=`{read} ~ $pin '' || echo pin $bd $pin >/net/bt/ctl } But now you mention it, using the plumber seems a good idea, so we could pop up a new window to ask for a PIN when needed.