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A Brief history of sudo(8):
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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 newsgroup
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in December of 1985.
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In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder released and 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 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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In 2004, Todd incorporated as GratiSoft, Inc. to provide commercial
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support and enhancements to the sudo community. Please visit
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http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/support.html for information on commerical
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support.
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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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