Adding a check to consider a password in shadow of '!' as an unset password works around the regression caused by bug #296841 and as discussed on IRC is probably a good idea anyways. The user-setup udeb built with the attached patch tested good and allows me to set a SHA512 password using passwd/root-password-crypted.
Adding a check to consider a password in shadow of '!' as an unset password works around the regression caused by bug #296841 and as discussed on IRC is probably a good idea anyways. The user-setup udeb built with the attached patch tested good and allows me to set a SHA512 password using passwd/ root-password- crypted.