How to make sudo commands to use pty instead pts

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Issue

  • How do I make sure that sudo commands use pty instead of pts because attackers can run a malicious program using sudo which would fork a background process that remains even when the main program has finished executing?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • sudo

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