I'm using several $ characters in my password without escaping them in the debconf file. Did you try that?
David Dreezer Customer Advocate, Social Strata, Inc. Online Community HQ Since 1996 Hoop.la · LiveCloud · Eve Community Follow us: @socialstrata On Jan 17, 2011, at 2:15 AM, Natxo Asenjo wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:31 PM, David Dreezer <d...@socialstrata.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> In $FAI/config/debconf/YOURCLASS >> >> mysql-server mysql-server/root_password password myrootpassword >> mysql-server mysql-server/root_password_again password myrootpassword > > just another question about this: > > is it possible to escape a '$' or '#'in the password field? If I try > with a '\' in front of those, it does not work. > > Just curious, this is no show stopper, I can change the passwords with > cfengine later. > > TIA, > > -- > natxo