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## The sudo philosophy
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Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges
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to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few
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privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done.
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## Where to find sudo
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Before you try and build sudo, *please* make sure you have the current
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version. The latest sudo may always be gotten via anonymous ftp from
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ftp.sudo.ws in the directory /pub/sudo/ or from the sudo web site,
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https://www.sudo.ws/
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The distribution is sudo-M.m.tar.gz where _M_ is the major version
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number and _m_ is the minor version number. Beta versions of sudo may
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also be available. If you join the _sudo-workers_ mailing list you
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will get the beta announcements (see the Mailing lists section below).
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## What's new
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See the NEWS file for a list of major changes in this release. For
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a complete list of changes, see the [ChangeLog](ChangeLog).
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For a summary of major changes to the current stable release, see
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https://www.sudo.ws/releases/stable/.
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If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Sudo, please read
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[docs/UPGRADE.md](docs/UPGRADE.md) for information on changes in
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behavior that may affect you.
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For a history of sudo please see [docs/HISTORY.md](docs/HISTORY.md).
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You can find a list of contributors to sudo in
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[docs/CONTRIBUTORS.md](docs/CONTRIBUTORS.md).
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## Building the release
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Please read the installation guide, [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md), before
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trying to build sudo. Pay special attention to the "OS dependent notes"
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section.
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## How to contribute
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See [docs/CONTRIBUTING.md](docs/CONTRIBUTING.md) for information on
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how you can help contribute to sudo.
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## Copyright
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Sudo is distributed under an ISC-style license.
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Please refer to [docs/LICENSE.md](docs/LICENSE.md) for details.
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## Mailing lists
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#### sudo-announce
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This list receives announcements whenever a new version of sudo is
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released. https://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-announce
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#### sudo-blog
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This list receives a message when a new sudo blog article is
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available. https://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-blog
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#### sudo-commits
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This list receives a message for each commit made to the sudo source
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repository. https://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-commits
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#### sudo-users
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This list is for questions and general discussion about sudo.
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https://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-users
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#### sudo-workers
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This list is for people working on and porting sudo.
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https://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-workers
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To subscribe to a list, visit its url (listed above) and enter your
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email address to subscribe. Digest versions are available but these are
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fairly low traffic lists so the digest versions are not a significant win.
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Mailing list archives are also available. See the mailing list web sites
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for the appropriate links.
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## Web page
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There is a sudo web page at https://www.sudo.ws/ that contains an overview
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of sudo, documentation, downloads, a bug tracker, the sudo blog, information
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about beta versions and other useful info.
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## Bug reports
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If you have found what you believe to be a bug, you can file a bug
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report in the sudo bug database, at https://bugzilla.sudo.ws/.
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Alternately, you can file a GitHub issue if that is easier for you
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at https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/issues/.
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Please see [docs/SECURITY.md](docs/SECURITY.md) for our security
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policy and how to report security issues.
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Please read over [docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md](docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md)
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*before* submitting a bug report. When reporting bugs, please be
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sure to include the version of sudo you are using as well as the
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platform you are running it on.
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