Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > frans, > > why is functions.sh returning '1' if the file $ROOT/etc/passwd exists, > in both the is_system_user and root_password functions? > > surely this should be 0 in both instances?
Er, it's not:
if ! [ -e $ROOT/etc/passwd ]; then
return 1
fi
This returns 1 if it _doesn't_ exist.
> especially look at like 47 of user-setup-ask - it says if [ ! root_password]
elif ! root_password; then
So if there's no $ROOT/etc/password, root_password will return false,
and this confitional will succeed, and it will go on to check for a
preseeded root password. Seems like the right thing to do..
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