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Before I start, I am no Linux expert by any means, I just know the basics and am still at the beginning of my Linux/Server journey.

I messed up, I've used chmod before but now I used it in the root directory.

Since I couldn't see my directories as a root user (I'm pretty sure), I accessed root with sudo su - and then ran chmod -R 777 / in the root directory. Now every time I try to use sudo I get this:

sudo: /etc/sudo.conf is world writable
sudo: /etc/sudo.conf is world writable
sudo: /etc/sudoers is world writable
sudo: error initializing audit plugin sudoers_audit

I tried looking up a solution, but since I can't use sudo everything seems to be useless.

What I tried: pkexec chmod 555 /etc/sudoers >> Authentication failure pkexec chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers >> Authentication failure

Did I mess the whole system up now? I hope anyone can give me feedback, and hopefully tell me that my mess can be fixed

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