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The sudo philosophy
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Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges
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to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few
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privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done.
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Where to find sudo
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==================
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Before you try and build sudo, *please* make sure you have the current
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version. The latest sudo may always be gotten via anonymous ftp from
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ftp.sudo.ws in the directory /pub/sudo/ or from the sudo web site,
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https://www.sudo.ws/
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The distribution is sudo-M.m.tar.gz where `M' is the major version
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number and `m' is the minor version number. BETA versions of sudo may
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also be available. If you join the `sudo-workers' mailing list you
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will get the BETA announcements (see the `Mailing lists' section below).
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What's new
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==========
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See the NEWS file for a list of major changes in this release.
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For a complete list of changes, see the ChangeLog file. For a
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summary of major changes to the current stable release, see the web
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page, https://www.sudo.ws/stable.html.
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If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Sudo, please see
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the UPGRADE file in the doc directory.
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For a history of sudo please see the HISTORY file in the doc directory.
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You can find a list of contributors to sudo in the doc/CONTRIBUTORS file.
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Building the release
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====================
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Please read the installation guide in the `INSTALL' file before trying to
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build sudo. Pay special attention to the "OS dependent notes" section.
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Copyright
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=========
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Sudo is distributed under an ISC-style license.
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Please refer to the `LICENSE' file included with the release for details.
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Mailing lists
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=============
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sudo-announce This list receives announcements whenever a new version
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of sudo is released.
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https://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-announce
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sudo-users This list is for questions and general discussion about sudo.
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https://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-users
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sudo-workers This list is for people working on and porting sudo.
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https://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-workers
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sudo-commits This list receives a message for each commit made to
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the sudo source repository.
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https://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-commits
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To subscribe to a list, visit its url (as listed above) and enter
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your email address to subscribe. Digest versions are available but
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these are fairly low traffic lists so the digest versions are not
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a significant win.
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Mailing list archives are also available. See the mailing list web sites
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for the appropriate links.
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Web page
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There is a sudo web page at https://www.sudo.ws/ that contains an
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overview of sudo, documentation, downloads, a bug tracker, information
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about beta versions and other useful info.
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Bug reports
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===========
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If you have found what you believe to be a bug, you can file a bug
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report in the sudo bug database, on the web at https://bugzilla.sudo.ws/.
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Please read over the `TROUBLESHOOTING' file in the doc directory *before*
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submitting a bug report. When reporting bugs, please be sure to include
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the version of sudo you are using as well as the platform you are running
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it on.
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