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A Brief history of sudo(8):
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1999-07-22 12:31:53 +00:00
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The sudo philosophy originated at SUNY-Buffalo in the early 1980's.
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In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder enhanced sudo and released it
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to the public. For the next 5 years, sudo was fed and watered by
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a handful of folks at CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob
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Manchek, and Trent Hein.
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In 1991, Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma wrote a new version of sudo
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with an enhanced sudoers format. This version was bought by a
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consulting firm called "The Root Group" and released under the GNU
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public license.
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In 1996, Todd Miller, who had been maintaining sudo for several
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years in his spare time, brought sudo development under the umbrella
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of his consulting firm, Courtesan Consulting. Courtesan remains
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committed to a free sudo and is sponsoring another sudo rewrite as
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well as continued development of the sudo 1.x code base. As of
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version 1.6, Sudo no longer contains any of the original "Root
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Group" code and is available with a BSD-style license. As there
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has been no public release of Sudo from the "Root Group" I've dropped
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the `CU' from the name.
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sudo, in its current form, is maintained by:
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1999-07-31 16:31:27 +00:00
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Todd Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
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1999-07-22 12:31:53 +00:00
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Todd continues to enhance sudo and fix bugs. Bug reports and fixes
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should be mailed to sudo-bugs@courtesan.com. Please include the version
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of sudo you are using and the platform you are running it on.
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