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sudo 1.8.5p1

    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 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).
   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.
   30: You can find a list of contributors to sudo in the doc/CONTRIBUTORS file.
   31: 
   32: System requirements
   33: ===================
   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.
   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 from http://flex.sourceforge.net/.
   44: You can get GNU bison from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison/ or any
   45: GNU mirror.
   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.