Control: block 640344 by 587380 Control: affects 587380 simple-cdd On 2011-09-04, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 02:27:41PM +0200, Tom wrote: >> When trying to preseed a password with simple-cdd, eg passwd/root-password-crypted, >> simple-cdd fails with the following error message: >> >> debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied >> error: Cannot find a question for passwd/root-password-crypted >> >> because the question for the existing template is in the inaccessible passwords.dat > > simple-cdd uses "debconf-set-selections --checkonly" to check the preseed > files, but as you've noticed, debconf questions in passwords.dat cannot be > checked by non-root users. Since this is caused by a limitation of debconf-set-selections, adding block and affects appropriately. live well, vagrant