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systemd version the issue has been seen with

ALL

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Used distribution

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In case of bug report: Expected behaviour you didn't see

adding this to sudoers: "%manager ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /bin/systemctl status" would not provide a path to root shell

In case of bug report: Unexpected behaviour you saw

once the pager (less) is invoked, !/bin/bash drops you to root shell.

In case of bug report: Steps to reproduce the problem

(covered above)

I realize that this can be addressed by adding the --no-pager option and creating aliases, but is sure seems like invoking a pager that lets you drop shell on a utility run as root is just begging for trouble.