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- A Brief history of sudo(8):
-
- Sudo was first conceived and implemented by Bob Coggeshall and Cliff
- Spencer around 1980 at the Department of Computer Science at
- SUNY/Buffalo. It ran on a VAX-11/750 running 4.1BSD. An updated
- version, credited to Phil Betchel, Cliff Spencer, Gretchen Phillips,
- John LoVerso and Don Gworek, was posted to the net.sources newsgroup
- in December of 1985.
-
- In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder released an enhanced version
- of sudo. For the next 5 years, sudo was fed and watered by a handful
- of folks at CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob Manchek, and
- Trent Hein.
-
- In 1991, Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma wrote a new version of sudo
- with an enhanced sudoers format under contract to a consulting firm
- called "The Root Group". This version was later released under the
- GNU public license.
-
- In 1994, after maintaining sudo informally within CU-Boulder for
- some time, Todd Miller made a public release of "CU sudo" (version
- 1.3) with bug fixes and support for more operating systems. The
- "CU" was added to differentiate it from the "official" version from
- "The Root Group".
-
- In 1996, Todd, who had been maintaining sudo for several years in
- his spare time, brought sudo development under the umbrella of his
- consulting firm, Courtesan Consulting. Courtesan remains committed
- to a free sudo and is sponsoring another sudo rewrite as well as
- continued development of the sudo 1.x code base.
-
- In 1999, the "CU" prefix was dropped from the name since there has
- been no formal release of sudo from "The Root Group" since 1991
- (the original authors now work elsewhere). As of version 1.6, Sudo
- no longer contains any of the original "Root Group" code and is
- available under an ISC-style license.
-
- In 2004, Todd incorporated as GratiSoft, Inc. to provide commercial
- support and enhancements to the sudo community.
-
- In 2005, GratiSoft was put on hold.
-
- sudo, in its current form, is maintained by:
-
- Todd Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
-
- Todd continues to enhance sudo and fix bugs.
-