On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 03:31:08PM +0100, Paul Millar wrote: > On Tuesday 05 October 2004 09:51, Free Ekanayaka wrote: > > what about automatic root pw setting? > > (my reading is...) > Currently this doesn't work because passwd deliberately unsets the > passwd/root-passwd and ...-again keys before trying to obtain them. This is > (IMO) correct behaviour -- no system should expect to hold root pw in > plain-text, so any existing values should be discarded. > > An alternative solution is to have a key passwd/root-hash (or some such) that > the passwd install scripts would use, if its set, so it wouldn't need to ask > the user for the password. Probably only a few lines of extra code are > needed to support this.
Or passwd/root-passwd with an invented 'hash' flag set. Joey (or anyone), does the preseeding infrastructure support debconf flags? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
