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A Brief history of sudo(8):
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The sudo philosophy originated at SUNY-Buffalo in the early 1980's.
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In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder enhanced sudo and released it
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to the public. For the next 5 years, sudo was fed and watered by
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a handful of folks at CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob
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Manchek, and Trent Hein.
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In 1991, Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma wrote a new version of sudo
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with an enhanced sudoers format. This version was bought by a
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consulting firm called "The Root Group" and released under the GNU
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public license.
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In 1994, after maintaining sudo informally withing CU-Boulder for
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some time, Todd Miller made a public release of "CU sudo" (version
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1.3) with bug fixes and support for more operating systems. The
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"CU" was added to differentiate it from the "official" version from
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"The Root Group".
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In 1996, Todd, who had been maintaining sudo for several years in
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his spare time, brought sudo development under the umbrella of his
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consulting firm, Courtesan Consulting. Courtesan remains committed
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to a free sudo and is sponsoring another sudo rewrite as well as
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continued development of the sudo 1.x code base.
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In 1999, the "CU" prefix was dropped from the name since there has
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been no formal release of sudo from "The Root Group" since 1991
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(the original authors now work elsewhere). As of version 1.6, Sudo
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no longer contains any of the original "Root Group" code and is
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available with a BSD-style license.
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sudo, in its current form, is maintained by:
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Todd Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
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Todd continues to enhance sudo and fix bugs.
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