Re: Debian Etch Installation. Root password doesn't works, why?

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 07:29:25PM +0100, Manuel Gómez wrote:
> At last i know what's going out! My partitions are:
> 
> / - nosuid
> /var -nodev
> /usr -nodev
> /tmp - nodev,nosuid
> 
> Have i made any mistake? When i create "/" and install debian in it works.
> But it's strange, when i install Debian the last one I had created the
> partitions like this, and it was working.
> 

That "nosuid" might be a bit of a problem:

$ ls -l /bin/* /sbin/* | grep ^-rws
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root     66152 2008-04-29 05:36 /bin/mount
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root     32792 2007-12-10 06:20 /bin/ping
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root     28560 2007-12-10 06:20 /bin/ping6
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root     33112 2008-09-15 00:34 /bin/su
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root     46040 2008-04-29 05:36 /bin/umount
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root     76344 2008-10-19 07:26 /sbin/mount.nfs

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