[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#337904: Cannot preseed a locked password
Geert Stappers
stappers at stappers.nl
Tue Nov 8 17:52:38 UTC 2005
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:01:51AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> 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.
IMO is the wishlist bugreport not worth the effort.
Cheers
Geert Stappers
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