Ubuntu
user-setup package

  1. Bug #48350
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 48350

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: local root exploit

Ironically, this is because we were being zealous in avoiding the information leak in the Breezy installer. Making sure that the password is cleared out of the cdebconf database when user-setup-apply runs means that if user-setup-apply is run again then it no longer has the information it needs to do things properly ...