Control: reassigne -1 user-setup Hello,
David Mandelberg, le ven. 09 avril 2021 23:06:06 -0400, a ecrit: > https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/apbs04.en.html section > B.4.5 talks about using "!" in passwd/root-password-crypted: > > The passwd/root-password-crypted and passwd/user-password-crypted > > variables can also be preseeded with "!" as their value. In that case, > > the corresponding account is disabled. This may be convenient for the > > root account, provided of course that an alternative method is set up > > to allow administrative activities or root login (for instance by > > using SSH key authentication or sudo). > > When I tried that, it didn't seem to have any effect. From looking at > what I think is the relevant code[0], it looks like a value of "!" in > passwd/root-password-crypted is explicitly ignored. It seems to me that it is actually a regression in the user-setup package. "!" was really meant to mean empty password (thus disabled) and it seems that the fix for #400766 broke it. Samuel
