diff -Nru user-setup-1.23ubuntu6/debian/changelog user-setup-1.23ubuntu7/debian/changelog
--- user-setup-1.23ubuntu6/debian/changelog	2009-01-06 15:02:07.000000000 -0800
+++ user-setup-1.23ubuntu7/debian/changelog	2009-01-21 00:01:18.000000000 -0800
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+user-setup (1.23ubuntu7) jaunty; urgency=low
+
+  * Patched to fixed unexpeceted operator error (Fixes LP: #307443)
+  * Bump standards version to 3.8.0 
+
+ -- Joseph Smidt <josephsmidt@gmail.com>  Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:59:46 -0800
+
 user-setup (1.23ubuntu6) jaunty; urgency=low
 
   [ Dustin Kirkland ]
diff -Nru user-setup-1.23ubuntu6/debian/control user-setup-1.23ubuntu7/debian/control
--- user-setup-1.23ubuntu6/debian/control	2008-11-27 09:58:51.000000000 -0800
+++ user-setup-1.23ubuntu7/debian/control	2009-01-20 23:59:41.000000000 -0800
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>, Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.2), dpkg-dev (>= 1.7.0), po-debconf (>= 0.5.0)
-Standards-Version: 3.7.2
+Standards-Version: 3.8.0
 XS-Debian-Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/d-i/trunk/packages/user-setup
 Vcs-Bzr: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/user-setup/ubuntu
 
diff -Nru user-setup-1.23ubuntu6/functions.sh user-setup-1.23ubuntu7/functions.sh
--- user-setup-1.23ubuntu6/functions.sh	2008-03-04 02:10:09.000000000 -0800
+++ user-setup-1.23ubuntu7/functions.sh	2009-01-20 23:59:26.000000000 -0800
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 
 	if [ -e $ROOT/etc/shadow ] && \
 	   [ "`grep ^root: $ROOT/etc/shadow | cut -d : -f 2`" ] && \
-	   [ "`grep ^root: $ROOT/etc/shadow | cut -d : -f 2`" != '*' ]; then
+	   [ "x`grep ^root: $ROOT/etc/shadow | cut -d : -f 2`" != 'x*' ]; then
 		return 0
 	fi