[Debconf-devel] Bug#636219: How can we quote # in a value passed to debconf-set-selections?

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Joey Hess]
>> In the case of Debian Edu configuration scripts, this bug meant
>> that a password containing a # character would be truncated
> 
> AFAIK, a crypted password string will not contain a `#`.
> 
> Also, d-i's password preseeding does not involve debconf's version
> of debconf-set-selections.

See #664976 for the details of the Debian Edu problem.  Clear text
passwords are passed from d-i to /target/ using
debconf-set-selections, and breaking for passwords like '*#secret'.
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen