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A Brief history of sudo(8):
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The sudo philosophy originated at SUNY-Buffalo in the early
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1980's. In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder enhanced sudo
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and released it to the public. For the next 5 years,
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sudo was fed and watered by a handful of folks
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at CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob Manchek, and
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Trent Hein.
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In 1991, the University of Colorado and a consulting firm
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named "The Root Group" both paid (unbeknownst to each
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other) a group of programmers to add enhancements to sudo.
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Instead of using existing code, they started from scratch.
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These programmers (Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma) eventually
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released the new code under the GNU general license.
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In 1996, Todd Miller, who had been maintaining sudo
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for several years in his spare time, brought sudo
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developement under the umbrella of his consulting firm,
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Courtesan Consulting. Courtesan remains committed to
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a free sudo and is sponsoring another sudo rewrite
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as well as continued developement of the sudo 1.x
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code base.
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sudo, in its current form, is maintained by:
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Todd Miller
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<Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
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(303) 492-5720
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Todd continues to enhance sudo and fix bugs. Bug reports and
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fixes should be mailed to sudo-bugs@courtesan.com.
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