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=head1 A brief history of sudo:
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Sudo was first conceived and implemented by Bob Coggeshall and Cliff
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Spencer around 1980 at the Department of Computer Science at
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SUNY/Buffalo. It ran on a VAX-11/750 running 4.1BSD. An updated
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version, credited to Phil Betchel, Cliff Spencer, Gretchen Phillips,
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John LoVerso and Don Gworek, was posted to the net.sources Usenet
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newsgroup in December of 1985.
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In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder released an enhanced version
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of sudo. For the next 5 years, sudo was fed and watered by a handful
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of folks at CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob Manchek, and
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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 under contract to a consulting firm
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called "The Root Group". This version was later released under the
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GNU public license.
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In 1994, after maintaining sudo informally within 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 1995, a new parser for the sudoers file was contributed by Chris
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Jepeway. The new parser was a proper grammar (unlike the old one)
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and could work with both sudo and visudo (previously they had
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slightly different parsers).
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In 1996, Todd, who had been maintaining sudo for several years in
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his spare time, moved distribution of sudo from a CU-Boulder ftp
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site to his domain, courtesan.com.
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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 under an ISC-style license.
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In 2001, the sudo web site, ftp site and mailing lists were moved
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from courtesan.com to the sudo.ws domain (sudo.org was already
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taken).
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In 2005, Todd rewrote the sudoers parser to better support the
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features that had been added in the past ten years. This new parser
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removes some limitations of the previous one, removes ordering
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constraints and adds support for including multiple sudoers files.
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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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