[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#337904: Cannot preseed a locked password

[Geert Stappers]

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