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Re: Unable to set root password with clear text using preseed/early_command



Glen Huang <heyhgl@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks to Cyril Brulebois’s tip that I could use DEBCONF_DEBUG to debug debconf, I found out the seen flag should be set in order for db_input to pick up the value.
>
> Case solved, thanks to everyone helped!

I was wondering about that, but didn't see my code setting lots of seen
flags, so wasn't sure.

I now realise that the reason for that is that I generally preseed the
things I don't want to be asked, even if I'm going to set them via
script, and the act of preseeding them to a place-holder value also sets
the seen flag.  Then you get to override that in a script without
worrying about also setting the seen flag at that point.

Cheers, Phil.
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