Debian Bug report logs - #640344
simple-cdd fails to preseed passwords

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Package: simple-cdd; Maintainer for simple-cdd is Simple-CDD Developers <[email protected]>; Source for simple-cdd is src:simple-cdd (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Tom <[email protected]>

Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 12:38:51 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version simple-cdd/0.3.13

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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.


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