> Of course, given these facts, forget about any hinting for shadow > until it has been proven that 4.0.3-30.6 does not break base-config > and thus the installer. Being virtually murdered by joeyh is certainly
I simulated this by "dpkg-reconfigure passwd" after hacking the passwd.config file so that it does not exit on reconfigures and after blanking root's password. Doing so, the root password was properly set as well as the newly created user password. This means that chpasswd in passwd 4.0.3-30.6 does NOT seem to break base-config. Proving this on a fresh d-i install will be better...I'm working on it.