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- This is the CU version of sudo, release 1.5.4
-
- The sudo philosophy
- ===================
-
- Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges
- to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few
- privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done.
-
- Where to find sudo
- ==================
- Before you try and build sudo, *please* make sure you have the current
- version. The latest sudo may always be gotten via anonymous ftp
- from ftp.courtesan.com in the directory /pub/sudo/.
- The distribution is cu-sudo.vM.m.tar.Z where `M' is the major
- version number and `m' is the minor version number.
- BETA versions of sudo may also be available. If you join
- the `sudo-workers' mailing list you will get the BETA announcements
- (see the `Mailing lists' section below).
-
- What's new
- ==========
- For a history of CU sudo please see the HISTORY file that came with the
- release. Please note that while this source is based on the Root
- Group's sudo 1.1, the code has been changed significantly, so please
- do not bother them with bugs in CU sudo. Bug reports for this sudo
- should be sent to sudo-bugs@courtesan.com.
-
- For a complete list of changes, see the CHANGES file. For a summary,
- see the web page, http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/.
-
- System requirements
- ===================
-
- Sudo requires a machine running UN*X (most flavors of BSD, SYSV, or
- POSIX will do), a C compiler, and a yacc-compatible parser generator
- (yacc, byacc, bison). If you wish to modify the tokenizer then you
- will need flex version 2.5.2 or later. (sudo comes with a pre-flex'd
- tokenizer). You can get flex via anonymous ftp from
- ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pub/flex* as well as any GNU mirror.
-
- Building the release
- ===================
-
- Please read the installation guide in the `INSTALL' file before
- trying to build sudo. Things have changed quite a bit from the
- previous release (1.4). The `RUNSON' file contains a list of
- of platforms that this version of sudo is known to work on. If you
- can add to this list, please send mail to sudo-bugs@courtesan.com.
- If something goes wrong you may want to refer to the `TROUBLESHOOTING'
- file.
-
- Copyright
- =========
-
- Sudo is distributed under the `GNU general public license.'
- Please refer to the `COPYING' file included with the release
- for a copy of the license proper.
-
- Mailing lists
- =============
-
- There is a mailing list that receives announcements whenever a new
- version of sudo is released. You can subscribe to it by sending a
- message to "majordomo@cs.colorado.edu" that includes the line
- "subscribe sudo-announce".
- There is also a list for people working on and porting sudo. The
- command to add yourself is "subscribe sudo-workers".
-
- Web page
- ========
-
- There is a sudo `web page' at http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/
- that contains an overview of sudo as well as pointers to BETA versions
- and other useful info.
-
- Bug reports
- ===========
- A list of known bugs may be found in the `BUGS' file.
- Please send (new) bugs, problems, comments, features, ports, etc
- to sudo-bugs@courtesan.com.
-