OK, this bug is bogus. The cause of this was me only preseeding d-i passwd/[value] and not passwd passwd/[value]
Any chance of making debconf inherit some values from d-i in the future? -- user-setup insists on creating a user https://launchpad.net/bugs/53656 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
