Hi Mike,

You have to use the md5 hash of the password. You can get it typing:

$ echo "XXXXXX" | md5sum
52f400d860b7431525a4c5367684de17 -

Now, add to the preseed.cfg the following line:

d-i password/root-password-crypted password52f400d860b7431525a4c5367684de17

Cheers,

Aitor.

On 20/10/15 13:09, m_maass <m_maass@???> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> i want to use in a preseed.cfg file
> d-i password/root-password-crypted password XXXXXX
> but i had no succes.
> Please can you tell me how to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike