> > BTW, I would also like to be able to preseed passwords to be disabled. Any > > opinions on that ? > > Absolutely not, password-preseeding is absolutely vital to do the nice > network-console trick. Indeed, after thinking about Holger's suggestion, I think he suggests that some passwords (mostly the newly created user) could be set to "disabled" just like one can do with the "--disabled-password" switch of adduser. Holger, am I correct?