reassign 450425 preseed tags 450425 pending thanks Quoting Gürkan Sengün (gurkan@linuks.mine.nu): > Package: debian-installer > Version: etch > Severity: normal > > I'm using this preseed file, and if I put *, \*, "*" in a password field, > I'm getting these: > > root:bin dev etc floppy init initrd lib mnt proc root sbin sys tmp usr > var:13824:0:99999:7::: > root:\*:13824:0:99999:7::: > root:"*":13824:0:99999:7::: > > What do I need to put to just get a line like this: > root:*:13824:0:99999:7::: > > Preseed file used: > http://debian.ethz.ch/d-i/p Joey Hess fixed a parsing bug this morning, which seems to be the cause for your problem. I roughly tried that, as long as debconf really has "*" for root-password-crypted, one ends with what you want in /etc/shadow
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