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the command could not be located because '/bin' is not included in the path environment variable.

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Problem :

I am facing following sudo path error
the command could not be located because '/bin' is not included in the path environment variable.
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Solution :

Your PATH variable seems to be messed up. If you are trying to run a restricted user with rbash, you should have /usr/bin in $PATH. 

For a terminal session you can fix this by running following command:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin

After that you can use sudo command, so you can edit /etc/environment file to make the change permanent, so, run in terminal:

sudo nano /etc/environment

To edit the file please make sure that the path is something like this:

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

Save and close the file with Ctrl+X and press Y when you are asked.

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