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CompTIA Linux+ XK0-006 (V8) Practice Question

While hardening a server you need to let a developer view log files as root without opening a privileged shell. You add the following line to /etc/sudoers with visudo:

alice ALL=(root) NOEXEC: /usr/bin/less

Afterward Alice can run sudo less /var/log/secure, but when she presses ! inside less and tries !sh she receives the message "command execution disabled by sudo noexec". Which statement best describes how the NOEXEC tag enforces this restriction?

  • It sets the environment variable SHELL=/bin/false, causing shell escapes to fail while leaving other program behavior unchanged.

  • It temporarily remounts all system filesystems with the noexec mount option so no new executable can be started.

  • It changes the program's effective UID to nobody, preventing it from launching set-UID binaries such as a shell.

  • It intercepts exec-family system calls (using LD_PRELOAD or a seccomp filter), allowing the permitted program to run but blocking any attempt it makes to execute another binary.

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