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There was no *error*, per se.

My previous post outlines the problem I had; here it is, in better detail:

 

1. The dialog box comes up to enter your password.

2. Press <enter>

3. Dialog box goes away.

4. Goto 1

 

There is an option "Always Allow" that is not the default, and perhaps it should be. So, if you operate the computer like I do, that is:

[thinks] Oh it wants a password

[types] *password* <enter>

Then the password prompt dialog box pops back up, it is not intuitive what has gone wrong. It's likely that many users did not have the issue, since millions of people use TT.

 

As a thirty-five year professional software developer, it occurs to me that there may be a hitch in the testing giddy-up.

The best testers I ever knew have always found every way they could figure out to break your software. In the development pipeline. So issues like these can be addressed before it hits the street. I love that. I don't want my software to get out of the shop if the way it works it isn't intuitive.

 

Now, it's entirely possible that this was brought up in the development/testing pipeline, and the way it currently operates is by design, and the decision was made not to change it, if it got brought up in testing. That's OK, and that is why this forum is such a help. bic1 found an answer that helped many of us.