How to configure /etc/sudoers to prevent shell escaping?

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Issue

  • What are the commands that enable shell escaping? We want to use noexec tag in /etc/sudoers to prevent these commands from launching a new program.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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