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Prevent sudo from escalating to other ttys
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sudo-on-current-tty-only.md 
sudo visudo

and somewhere in that file add

Defaults tty_tickets
  • source
  • other useful stuff for sudo: man sudoers - scroll to the SUDOER OPTIONS section (the first half just explains the syntax of the sudoer file)
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