Re: Cannot preseed a locked password
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 07:14:59PM +0100, Jens Seidel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 04:07:01PM +0000, Paul Millar wrote:
> > + if ! test "$RET" ; then
> > db_input critical passwd/user-password || true
> > COMPARE_PW=''
> > db_input critical passwd/user-password-again \
>
> a stupid question, but why is the password specified twice?
Because the preseeding file is not some sort of configuration file, or
so; it's a way to set defaults for answers to questions. Since the
question is asked twice, you also need to set the default answer to it
twice.
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../ --/ ./ / .--/ ../ -/ ..../ / -../ ./ -.-./ ---/ -../ ../ -./ --./ / --/
-.--/ / .../ ../ --./ -./ .-/ -/ ..-/ .-./ ./ .-.-.-/ / --/ ---/ .-./ .../ ./ /
../ .../ / ---/ ..-/ -/ -../ .-/ -/ ./ -../ / -/ ./ -.-./ ..../ -./ ---/ .-../
---/ --./ -.--/ / .-/ -./ -.--/ .--/ .-/ -.--/ .-.-.-/ / ...-.-/
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