Re: late_command to get user entered password

2010-08-07 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[William Belanger] > Is the password blanked out to prevent someone printing it out? Yes. The late_command part is executed in finish-install.d/07preseed, while the user setup is in finish-install.d/06user-setup, and the passwords are cleared just after user. To get access to the user password,

late_command to get user entered password

2010-08-07 Thread William Belanger
Hello, I'm attempting to create a custom install CD using preseeding. I've managed to get everything to work as expected with one exception. My preseed/late_command calls a script, which - among other things - creates a samba user using smbpasswd. The creation of this user requires a username and