From cfdf17001304aa826b89248cf599f18c8dde51d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf8?q?S=2E=C3=87a=C4=9Flar=20Onur?= <caglar@verivue.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:32:26 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] man 5 passwd states following;

[...]
password  the encrypted user password, an asterisk (*), or the letter 'x'.  (See pwconv(8) for an explanation of 'x'.)
[...]

so handle both situation
---
 config.planetlab/vserver.post | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/config.planetlab/vserver.post b/config.planetlab/vserver.post
index def0615f..7d518f44 100644
--- a/config.planetlab/vserver.post
+++ b/config.planetlab/vserver.post
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ fi
 
 # reset root password to be empty
 echo "Resetting root password in vserver-reference image"
-sed -i -e "s/root:\*/root:/" ${vdir}/etc/passwd
+sed -i -e "s/root:[\*|x]/root:/" ${vdir}/etc/passwd
 
 # modify the sudoers file to remove the 'requiretty' attribute
 echo "Removing requiretty from default /etc/sudoers file"
-- 
2.47.0