Bug#353813: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#353813: passwd.config fails when root password is '!'

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Vagrant Cascadian (vagrant+bugs at freegeek.org):
> Package: passwd
> Version: 4.0.14-6
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> 
> i found that when root password is set to '!', passwd.config seems to
> fail with the error message:
> 
> Shadow passwords are now on.
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/passwd.config: line 41: [: too many arguments
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/passwd.config: line 41: [: too many arguments
> 
> the following patch gets it to work, and is a little more POSIX, to
> boot.


Thanks for the report and patch.

This part of the passwd config step will very probably soon be
abandoned (after some advice from -devel) because its main purpose was
to be run from base-config.....which is dead now.

There may be some interest for keeping it for people who setup chroots
but this needs more investigation.