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1.1     ! misho       1: A Brief History of Sudo:
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        !             3: The Early Years
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        !             5: Sudo was first conceived and implemented by Bob Coggeshall and Cliff Spencer
        !             6: around 1980 at the Department of Computer Science at SUNY/Buffalo. It ran on
        !             7: a VAX-11/750 running 4.1BSD. An updated version, credited to Phil Betchel,
        !             8: Cliff Spencer, Gretchen Phillips, John LoVerso and Don Gworek, was posted to
        !             9: the net.sources Usenet newsgroup in December of 1985.
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        !            11: Sudo at CU-Boulder
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        !            13: In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder released an enhanced version of sudo.
        !            14: For the next 5 years, sudo was fed and watered by a handful of folks at
        !            15: CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob Manchek, and Trent Hein.
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        !            17: Root Group Sudo
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        !            19: In 1991, Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma wrote a new version of sudo with an
        !            20: enhanced sudoers format under contract to a consulting firm called "The Root
        !            21: Group". This version was later released under the GNU public license.
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        !            23: CU Sudo
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        !            25: In 1994, after maintaining sudo informally within CU-Boulder for some time,
        !            26: Todd C. Miller made a public release of "CU sudo" (version 1.3) with bug
        !            27: fixes and support for more operating systems. The "CU" was added to
        !            28: differentiate it from the "official" version from "The Root Group".
        !            29: 
        !            30: In 1995, a new parser for the sudoers file was contributed by Chris Jepeway.
        !            31: The new parser was a proper grammar (unlike the old one) and could work with
        !            32: both sudo and visudo (previously they had slightly different parsers).
        !            33: 
        !            34: In 1996, Todd, who had been maintaining sudo for several years in his spare
        !            35: time, moved distribution of sudo from a CU-Boulder ftp site to his domain,
        !            36: courtesan.com.
        !            37: 
        !            38: Just Plain Sudo
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        !            40: In 1999, the "CU" prefix was dropped from the name since there had been no
        !            41: formal release of sudo from "The Root Group" since 1991 (the original
        !            42: authors now work elsewhere). As of version 1.6, Sudo no longer contains any
        !            43: of the original "Root Group" code and is available under an ISC-style
        !            44: license.
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        !            46: In 2001, the sudo web site, ftp site and mailing lists were moved from
        !            47: courtesan.com to the sudo.ws domain (sudo.org was already taken).
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        !            49: LDAP Integration
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        !            51: In 2003, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company contributed code written by
        !            52: Aaron Spangler to store the sudoers data in LDAP. These changes were
        !            53: incorporated into Sudo 1.6.8.
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        !            55: New Parser
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        !            57: In 2005, Todd rewrote the sudoers parser to better support the features that
        !            58: had been added in the past ten years. This new parser removes some
        !            59: limitations of the previous one, removes ordering constraints and adds
        !            60: support for including multiple sudoers files.
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        !            62: Quest Sponsorship
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        !            64: In 2010, Quest Software began sponsoring Sudo development by hiring Todd to
        !            65: work on Sudo as part of his full-time job.
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        !            67: Present Day
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        !            69: Sudo, in its current form, is maintained by:
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        !            71:         Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
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        !            73: Todd continues to enhance sudo and fix bugs.
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