Annotation of embedaddon/sudo/README, revision 1.1.1.2
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:
1.1.1.2 ! misho 14: The distribution is sudo-M.m.tar.gz where `M' is the major version
! 15: number and `m' is the minor version number. BETA versions of sudo may
! 16: also be available. If you join the `sudo-workers' mailing list you
! 17: will get the BETA announcements (see the `Mailing lists' section below).
1.1 misho 18:
19: What's new
20: ==========
21: See the NEWS file for a list of major changes in this release.
22: For a complete list of changes, see the ChangeLog file. For a
23: summary of major changes to the current stable release, see the web
24: page, http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/stable.html.
25:
26: If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Sudo, please see
27: the UPGRADE file in the doc directory.
28:
29: For a history of sudo please see the HISTORY file in the doc directory.
1.1.1.2 ! misho 30: You can find a list of contributors to sudo in the doc/CONTRIBUTORS file.
1.1 misho 31:
32: System requirements
33: ===================
1.1.1.2 ! misho 34: To build sudo from the source distribution you need a POSIX-compliant
! 35: operating system (any modern version of BSD, Linux or Unix should
! 36: work), an ANSI/ISO C compiler that supports variadic marcos (a C99
! 37: feature) and the ar, make and ranlib utilities.
1.1 misho 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
1.1.1.2 ! misho 43: --with-devel option. You can get flex from http://flex.sourceforge.net/.
! 44: You can get GNU bison from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison/ or any
! 45: GNU mirror.
1.1 misho 46:
47: Building the release
48: ====================
49: Please read the installation guide in the `INSTALL' file before
50: trying to build sudo. Pay special attention to the "OS dependent notes"
51: section.
52:
53: Copyright
54: =========
55: Sudo is distributed under an ISC-style license.
56: Please refer to the `LICENSE' file included with the release for details.
57:
58: Mailing lists
59: =============
60: sudo-announce This list receives announcements whenever a new version
61: of sudo is released.
62: http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-announce
63:
64: sudo-users This list is for questions and general discussion about sudo.
65: http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-users
66:
67: sudo-workers This list is for people working on and porting sudo.
68: http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-workers
69:
70: sudo-commits This list receives a message for each commit made to
71: the sudo source repository.
72: http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-commits
73:
74: To subscribe to a list, visit its url (as listed above) and enter
75: your email address to subscribe. Digest versions are available but
76: these are fairly low traffic lists so the digest versions are not
77: a significant win.
78:
79: Mailing list archives are also available. See the mailing list web sites
80: for the appropriate links.
81:
82: Web page
83: ========
84: There is a sudo web page at http://www.sudo.ws/ that contains
85: an overview of sudo, documentation, downloads, information about
86: beta versions and other useful info.
87:
88: Bug reports
89: ===========
90: If you have found what you believe to be a bug, you can file a bug
91: report in the sudo bug database, on the web at http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/.
92:
93: Please read over the `TROUBLESHOOTING' file in the doc directory *before*
94: submitting a bug report. When reporting bugs, please be sure to include
95: the version of sudo you are using as well as the platform you are running
96: it on.
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