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- A Brief history of sudo(8):
-
- The sudo philosophy originated at SUNY-Buffalo in the early
- 1980's. In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder enhanced sudo
- and released it to the public. 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. This version
- was bought by a consulting firm called "The Root Group"
- and released under the GNU general license.
-
- In 1996, Todd Miller, 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.
-
- sudo, in its current form, is maintained by:
-
- Todd Miller
- <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
- (303) 492-5720
-
- Todd continues to enhance sudo and fix bugs. Bug reports and
- fixes should be mailed to sudo-bugs@courtesan.com.
-