Quoting Frans Pop (elendil@planet.nl): > On Wednesday 20 May 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > > +user-setup (1.24) unstable; urgency=low > > + [ Christian Perrier ] > > + * No longer use the "-m" switch of chpasswd. It uses PAM now and no > > + longer has this switch. The password will use settings from > > + libpam-runtime, so MD5 by default. > > > > Does this mean it is no longer possible to preseed using plain > > passwords? > > Never mind. Still, we have an issue (raised by Martin Michlmayr): that change will break lenny'n'half. We briefly discussed this on IRC with otavio and two solutions come to mind: - test the version of passwd in /target and adapt the behaviour of user-setup-apply accordingly - another solution proposed by otavio that I haven't been able to understand: he'll propose a patch soon --
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