I REALLY need help.
I cannot do ANYTHING on my RedHat Enterprise distro.
I do not have permissions for ANYTHING, even as superuser or root.
EXAMPLE:
[admin@localhost ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@localhost root]$ whoami
root
[root@localhost root]$ pwd
/root
[root@localhost root]$ touch x
touch: creating `x': Permission denied <<<<<<< !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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[root@localhost root]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 32G 2.1G 28G 8% /
/dev/sda1 97M 26M 67M 28% /boot
none 626M 0 626M 0% /dev/shm
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[root@localhost root]$ mount
/dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
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[root@localhost root]$ set
BASH=/bin/bash
BASH_ENV=/root/.bashrc
BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="2" [1]="05b" [2]="0" [3]="1" [4]="release" [5]="i386-redhat-linux-gnu")
BASH_VERSION='2.05b.0(1)-release'
COLORS=/etc/DIR_COLORS
COLUMNS=132
DIRSTACK=()
EUID=4294967295
GROUPS=()
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
HISTFILE=/root/.bash_history
HISTFILESIZE=1000
HISTSIZE=1000
HOME=/root
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
HOSTTYPE=i386
IFS=$' \t\n'
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGVAR=en_US.UTF-8
LESSOPEN='|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s'
LINES=49
LOGNAME=root
LS_COLORS='no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36
i=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01
r=01;05;37;41:mi =01;05;37;41:ex=01;32:*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.sh=01;32:*.csh=0 1;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.g z=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01; 35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.tif=01;35:'
MACHTYPE=i386-redhat-linux-gnu
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/root
MAILCHECK=60
OPTERR=1
OPTIND=1
OSTYPE=linux-gnu
PATH=/usr/kerberos/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin
PIPESTATUS=([0]="0")
PPID=24842
PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '
PS2='> '
PS4='+ '
PWD=/root
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:monitor
SHLVL=1
SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass
SUPPORTED=en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en
TERM=vt100
UID=4294967295
USER=root
USERNAME=root
_=mount
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[root@localhost root]$ ls -l .*
-rw------- 1 0 root 8220 Sep 1 19:52 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 24 Jun 10 2000 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 233 Jun 9 11:00 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 176 Aug 23 1995 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 244 Mar 14 15:40 .cshrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 51 Jul 11 11:38 .fonts.cache-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 120 Aug 24 2004 .gtkrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 130 Feb 16 2005 .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
-rw------- 1 0 root 0 Feb 19 2005 .ICEauthority
-rw------- 1 0 root 0 Feb 16 2005 .recently-used
-rw------- 1 0 root 559 Feb 16 2005 .rhn-applet.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 196 Jul 11 2000 .tcshrc
-rw------- 1 0 root 164 Feb 16 2005 .Xauthority
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 1126 Aug 23 1995 .Xresources
-rw------- 1 0 root 1112 Feb 16 2005 .xsession-errors
.:
total 36
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 1182 Feb 1 2005 anaconda-ks.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 21765 Feb 1 2005 install.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 4247 Feb 1 2005 install.log.syslog
..:
total 201
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 root 4096 Feb 1 2005 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 0 root 1024 Feb 1 2005 boot
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 561 Mar 4 2005 csh.cshrc
drwxr-xr-x 22 0 root 118784 Feb 19 2005 dev
drwxr-xr-x 64 0 root 8192 Sep 1 18:00 etc
drwxr-xr-x 5 0 root 4096 Jun 17 09:29 home
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 root 4096 Jan 24 2003 initrd
drwxr-xr-x 11 0 root 4096 Feb 1 2005 lib
drwx------ 2 0 root 16384 Feb 1 2005 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 root 4096 Nov 11 2004 misc
drwxr-xr-x 4 0 root 4096 Feb 1 2005 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 root 4096 Jan 24 2003 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 86 0 root 0 Feb 19 2005 proc
drwxr-x--- 14 0 root 4096 Jul 11 13:51 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 root 8192 Feb 1 2005 sbin
drwxrwxrwt 9 0 root 4096 Sep 10 11:50 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 17 0 root 4096 Jun 17 09:13 usr
drwxr-xr-x 23 0 root 4096 Feb 1 2005 var
ls: .elinks: Permission denied
ls: .gconf: Permission denied
ls: .gconfd: Permission denied
ls: .gnome: Permission denied
ls: .gnome2: Permission denied
ls: .gnome2_private: Permission denied
.gnome-desktop:
total 12
-rwx------ 1 0 root 128 Feb 16 2005 root's Home
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 2789 Feb 16 2005 starthere.desktop
-rwx------ 1 0 root 124 Feb 16 2005 Trash
.gstreamer:
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 104 Feb 1 2005 registry.xml
ls: .metacity: Permission denied
ls: .mozilla: Permission denied
.nautilus:
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 root 153 Feb 16 2005 first-time-flag
drwx------ 2 0 root 4096 Feb 16 2005 metafiles
ls: .ssh: Permission denied
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