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96 lines
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This is Sudo version 1.7
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The sudo philosophy
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===================
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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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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
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from ftp.sudo.ws in the directory /pub/sudo/.
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The distribution is sudo-M.m.tar.gz where `M' is the major
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version number and `m' is the minor version number.
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BETA versions of sudo may also be available. If you join
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the `sudo-workers' mailing list you will get the BETA announcements
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(see the `Mailing lists' section below).
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What's new
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==========
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For a history of sudo please see the HISTORY file that came with this
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release.
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For a complete list of changes, see the CHANGES file. For a summary,
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see the web page, http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/.
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If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Sudo, please see
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the UPGRADE file.
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NOTE: Starting with sudo 1.5.7 the configuration method has changed
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significantly as compared to previous versions. All options
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are now set via the configure script. See the `INSTALL' file
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for a list of all the configure options.
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System requirements
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To build sudo from the source distribution you need a machine running
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UN*X (most flavors of BSD, SYSV, or POSIX will do), a working C
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compiler, and the make utility.
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If you wish to modify the parser then you will need flex version
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2.5.2 or later and either bison or byacc (sudo comes with a pre-flex'd
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tokenizer and pre-yacc'd grammar parser). You'll also have to
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uncomment a few lines from the Makefile or run configure with the
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--with-devel option. You can get flex via anonymous ftp from
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ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pub/flex* as well as any GNU mirror. You can
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get GNU bison from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison/ or any GNU
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mirror.
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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
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trying to build sudo.
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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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sudo-announce This list receives announcements whenever a new version
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of sudo is released.
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http://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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http://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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http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-workers
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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 http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/ that contains
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an overview of sudo, documentation, downloads, information about
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beta versions and other useful info.
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Bug reports
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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 with the sudo bug database, on at web at http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/.
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Please read over the `TROUBLESHOOTING' file *before* submitting a
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bug report. When reporting bugs, please be sure to include the
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version of sudo you are using as well as the platform you are running
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it on.
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