[Joey Hess] >> In the case of Debian Edu configuration scripts, this bug meant >> that a password containing a # character would be truncated > > AFAIK, a crypted password string will not contain a `#`. > > Also, d-i's password preseeding does not involve debconf's version > of debconf-set-selections.
See #664976 for the details of the Debian Edu problem. Clear text passwords are passed from d-i to /target/ using debconf-set-selections, and breaking for passwords like '*#secret'. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
