I have the same problem as Lewis Stoddart above, with a small difference.
My machine gives the bash error when the username is supplied.
I do not receive the password in cleartext.
The problem does not appear when the maintenance mode is skipped with
<crtl>+D.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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