On Montag, 26. März 2012, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > 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'.
I think it's better to recommend not to use passwords with a "#" (and possible other characters) then modifiying the way preseeding works in stable. And, after all, preseeding clear text passwords is sub-optimal anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org