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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.
                     10: 
                     11: Sudo at CU-Boulder
                     12: 
                     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.
                     16: 
                     17: Root Group Sudo
                     18: 
                     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.
                     22: 
                     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.
                     45: 
                     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).
                     48: 
                     49: LDAP Integration
                     50: 
                     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.
                     54: 
                     55: New Parser
                     56: 
                     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.
                     61: 
                     62: Quest Sponsorship
                     63: 
                     64: In 2010, Quest Software began sponsoring Sudo development by hiring Todd to
                     65: work on Sudo as part of his full-time job.
                     66: 
                     67: Present Day
                     68: 
                     69: Sudo, in its current form, is maintained by:
                     70: 
                     71:         Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
                     72: 
                     73: Todd continues to enhance sudo and fix bugs.
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