Solaris

I have X4500 and I created a user. I wanted to give him root privileges and for editing the sudoers files I typed visudo sudoers. But it said visudo command not found. After googling I found that we need to set path in etc/profile. I edited that and put the following command

PATH=usr/local/sbin:usr/local/bin

and export PATH.

I already had some PATH above what I mentioned and now I can't use any command. ls -a, cat, everything says command not found. It seems that the PATH has changed and its unable to access these commands. I cannot even have access to GUI to correct it. Please help me with this in some way.

Thank you.

You are missing the leading "/" in your path entries.

Also, you need to add more directories to your path, for example /bin , /usr/bin and /usr/sbin

In addition, you should never edit a file like this with making a backup copy first,

I'd suggest adding the path statement to your user's profile (in his/hers home directory), rather than adding it to /etc/profile as /etc/profile updates everybodies path statement. This way, if you make a mistake you're only going to affect a single user rather than the problem being system wide and affecting all users. And not everybody needs to use visudo, so making it a little harder to run is probably worthwhile.