This is the CU version of sudo, release 1.3.8 (GAMMA)

The sudo philosophy
===================

Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges
to users and log root activity.  The basic philosophy is to give as few
privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done.

Where to find sudo
==================
Before you try and build sudo, *please* make sure you have the current
version.  The latest sudo may always be gotten via anonymous ftp
from ftp.cs.colorado.edu in the directory /pub/sysadmin/utilities/.
The distribution is cu-sudo.v1.M.m.tar.Z where `M' is the major
version number and `m' is the minor version number.
BETA versions of sudo may also be available.  If you join
the `sudo-workers' mailing list you will get the BETA announcements
(see the `Mailing lists' section below).

What's new
==========
For a history of CU sudo please see the HISTORY file that came with the
release.  Please note that while this source is based on the Root
Group's sudo 1.1, the code has been changed significantly, so please
do not bother them with bugs in CU sudo.  Bug reports for this sudo
should be sent to sudo-bugs@cs.colorado.edu.

CU sudo 1.3.8 represents a huge change from the 1.3.1 code base.
It includes a completely rewritten parser contributed by Chris Jepeway,
a smarter and easier to use visudo, an updated configure script along
with the usual bug fixes and portability changes.  See the CHANGES file
for the full scoop.

System requirements
===================

Sudo requires a machine running UN*X (most flavors of BSD, SYSV, or
POSIX will do), a C compiler, and a yacc-compatible parser generator
(yacc, byacc, bison).  If you wish to modify the tokenizer then a
version of lex or flex is required (sudo comes with a pre-flex'd
tokenizer).  Note that there are a lot of broken lex's out there
so I really recommend using flex (ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pub/flex*).

Building the release
===================

Please read the installation guide in the `INSTALL' file before
trying to build sudo.  Things have changed quite a bit from the
previous release (1.3.1pl4).  The `RUNSON' file contains a list of
of platforms that this version of sudo is known to work on.  If you
can add to this list, please send mail to sudo-bugs@cs.colorado.edu.
If something goes wrong you may want to refer to the `TROUBLESHOOTING'
file.

Copyright
=========

Sudo is distributed under the `GNU general public license.'
Please refer to the `COPYING' file included with the release
for a copy of the license proper.

Mailing lists
=============

There is a mailing list that receives announcements whenever a new
version of sudo is released.  You can subscribe to it by sending a
message to "majordomo@cs.colorado.edu" that includes the line
"subscribe sudo-announce".
There is also a list for people working on and porting sudo.  The
command to add yourself is "subscribe sudo-workers".

Web page
========

There is a sudo `web page' at http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~millert/sudo
that contains an overview of sudo as well as pointers to BETA versions
and other useful info.

Bug reports
===========
A list of known bugs may be found in the `BUGS' file.
Please send (new) bugs, problems, comments, features, ports, etc
to sudo-bugs@cs.colorado.edu.