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    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.