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1.1 ! misho 1: The sudo philosophy
! 2: ===================
! 3: Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges
! 4: to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few
! 5: privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done.
! 6:
! 7: Where to find sudo
! 8: ==================
! 9: Before you try and build sudo, *please* make sure you have the current
! 10: version. The latest sudo may always be gotten via anonymous ftp from
! 11: ftp.sudo.ws in the directory /pub/sudo/ or from the sudo web site,
! 12: http://www.sudo.ws/
! 13:
! 14: The distribution is sudo-M.m.tar.gz where `M' is the major
! 15: version number and `m' is the minor version number.
! 16: BETA versions of sudo may also be available. If you join
! 17: the `sudo-workers' mailing list you will get the BETA announcements
! 18: (see the `Mailing lists' section below).
! 19:
! 20: What's new
! 21: ==========
! 22: See the NEWS file for a list of major changes in this release.
! 23: For a complete list of changes, see the ChangeLog file. For a
! 24: summary of major changes to the current stable release, see the web
! 25: page, http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/stable.html.
! 26:
! 27: If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Sudo, please see
! 28: the UPGRADE file in the doc directory.
! 29:
! 30: For a history of sudo please see the HISTORY file in the doc directory.
! 31:
! 32: System requirements
! 33: ===================
! 34: To build sudo from the source distribution you need a nominally
! 35: POSIX-compliant operating system (any modern version of BSD, Linux
! 36: or UNIX should work), a working ANSI/ISO C compiler (C89 or higher),
! 37: and the ar, make and ranlib utilities
! 38:
! 39: If you wish to modify the parser then you will need flex version
! 40: 2.5.2 or later and either bison or byacc (sudo comes with a pre-flex'd
! 41: tokenizer and pre-yacc'd grammar parser). You'll also have to
! 42: uncomment a few lines from the Makefile or run configure with the
! 43: --with-devel option. You can get flex via anonymous ftp from
! 44: ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pub/flex* as well as any GNU mirror. You can
! 45: get GNU bison from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison/ or any GNU
! 46: mirror.
! 47:
! 48: Building the release
! 49: ====================
! 50: Please read the installation guide in the `INSTALL' file before
! 51: trying to build sudo. Pay special attention to the "OS dependent notes"
! 52: section.
! 53:
! 54: Copyright
! 55: =========
! 56: Sudo is distributed under an ISC-style license.
! 57: Please refer to the `LICENSE' file included with the release for details.
! 58:
! 59: Mailing lists
! 60: =============
! 61: sudo-announce This list receives announcements whenever a new version
! 62: of sudo is released.
! 63: http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-announce
! 64:
! 65: sudo-users This list is for questions and general discussion about sudo.
! 66: http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-users
! 67:
! 68: sudo-workers This list is for people working on and porting sudo.
! 69: http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-workers
! 70:
! 71: sudo-commits This list receives a message for each commit made to
! 72: the sudo source repository.
! 73: http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-commits
! 74:
! 75: To subscribe to a list, visit its url (as listed above) and enter
! 76: your email address to subscribe. Digest versions are available but
! 77: these are fairly low traffic lists so the digest versions are not
! 78: a significant win.
! 79:
! 80: Mailing list archives are also available. See the mailing list web sites
! 81: for the appropriate links.
! 82:
! 83: Web page
! 84: ========
! 85: There is a sudo web page at http://www.sudo.ws/ that contains
! 86: an overview of sudo, documentation, downloads, information about
! 87: beta versions and other useful info.
! 88:
! 89: Bug reports
! 90: ===========
! 91: If you have found what you believe to be a bug, you can file a bug
! 92: report in the sudo bug database, on the web at http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/.
! 93:
! 94: Please read over the `TROUBLESHOOTING' file in the doc directory *before*
! 95: submitting a bug report. When reporting bugs, please be sure to include
! 96: the version of sudo you are using as well as the platform you are running
! 97: it on.
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