Admin password stopped working in the Terminal

Just found on sudo no longer accepts my admin password in the Terminal. I'm guessing that it happened when I upgraded to OSX 10.11.4. Someone has an idea how to solve this problem short execution of the Combo update, even if only it will fix.

Your Admin password works elsewhere?  Is the rejection of password specifically with sudo and not (also) some other components of Mac OS X?   If the password work elsewhere and only not to sudo, then create a new administrative user, connect to this new user, launch Terminal.app here and see if sudo works there.

Your administrator password is empty?  If so, replace it with a valid, non-empty password, then try again sudo.

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