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INDEX ENTRY FOR SUDO:
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Name: sudo - Controls access to the root account
Version: 1.5.3
Author(s): Todd Miller, maintainer <sudo-bugs@cs.colorado.edu>
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, the University of Colorado and a consulting firm
named "The Root Group" both paid (unbeknownst to each
other) a group of programmers to add enhancements to sudo.
Instead of using existing code, they started from scratch.
These programmers (Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma) eventually
released the new code under the GNU general license.
sudo, in its current form, is maintained at the University
of Colorado by:
Todd Miller
University of Colorado, Department of Computer Science
Engineering Center ECOT 717
Campus Box 430
Boulder, CO 80309-0430
<millert@cs.colorado.edu>
(303) 492-5720
Todd continues to enhance sudo and fix bugs.
On the CD-ROM in: sysadm/sudo.tar
Ftp source: ftp.cs.colorado.edu:/pub/sysadmin/sudo/
Web page: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~millert/sudo
Size on the CD: 748 KB (uncompressed)
Description:
Sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser.
Sudo determines who is an authorized user by consulting the file
/etc/sudoers. The password prompt itself will also
time out if the password is not entered with N minutes (again, this is
defined at installation time and defaults to 5 minutes).
-- Quoted from the manpage in the cu-sudo.v1.3.1 distribution.
Advertised architectures:
Systems that CU sudo is known to run on (compiler and compilation
options may vary):
Auspex 1.6.1
SunOS 4.1.3
Solaris 2.[45]
ISC 4.[01]
RISCos 4_52
SCO 3.2.2
HP-UX 9.05, 9.07, 10.01, 10.10
Ultrix 4.3
IRIX 4.05H, 5.3, 6.2
NEXTSTEP 2.1, 3.2, and 3.3
DEC UNIX 3.X, and 4.0
AIX 3.2.X, 4.1.X
BSD 4.3
ConvexOS 9.1
BSD/OS 2.1
OpenBSD 2.0
FreeBSD 1.1 and 2.0.5
Linus 1.2.13
Linus 1.2.8
linux 2.0.15
UnixWare 1.1.4
Pyramid DC/OSx 1.1
ATT SVR4.X
SINIX 5.42
NCR 2.03 and 3.00
Unicos 9.0.1ai
See the RUNSON file for a terrific and much more detailed summary.
Prerequisites: C compiler