MacBook Air problem in terminal.

Running Ventura 13.0.1

Problem - I seem to have lost sudo rights.

I can’t even run “sudo whoami”

Error:

"sudo: unable to initialize PAM: No such file or directory”

The inter webs have a few suggestions, but I haven’t figured it out yet.

Any help would be appreciated. Useless jokes snarky comments will be acknowledged only if they are funny.

Ultimate goal is to have my start9 Embassy fully functional the way I want it. I’m almost done.

I’m at the step where I’m trying to enable proxy autoconfig. This is where I get the error. I

https://docs.start9.com/latest/user-manual/connecting/connecting-tor/tor-os/tor-mac