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sudo stands for Super User Do. It allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user (if configured access permissions allow it), by default the superuser and is therefore prefixed before commands when full access to the operating system is required.

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Sudo not working - No valid sudoer sources found

After mistakenly changing the permissions of the /etc/ folder to 777 in-order to modify files, I have been getting this error when using the sudo command and this results in commands not working properly … : sudo: /etc/sudoers is world writable sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin I'm unable to reboot,shutdown or logoff my system as-well as perform normal …
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