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1.1     ! misho       1: =head1 A Brief History of Sudo:
        !             2: 
        !             3: =head3 The Early Years
        !             4: 
        !             5: Sudo was first conceived and implemented by Bob Coggeshall and Cliff
        !             6: Spencer around 1980 at the Department of Computer Science at
        !             7: SUNY/Buffalo.  It ran on a VAX-11/750 running 4.1BSD.  An updated
        !             8: version, credited to Phil Betchel, Cliff Spencer, Gretchen Phillips,
        !             9: John LoVerso and Don Gworek, was posted to the net.sources Usenet
        !            10: newsgroup in December of 1985.
        !            11: 
        !            12: =head3 Sudo at CU-Boulder
        !            13: 
        !            14: In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder released an enhanced version
        !            15: of sudo.  For the next 5 years, sudo was fed and watered by a handful
        !            16: of folks at CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob Manchek, and
        !            17: Trent Hein.
        !            18: 
        !            19: =head3 Root Group Sudo
        !            20: 
        !            21: In 1991, Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma wrote a new version of sudo
        !            22: with an enhanced sudoers format under contract to a consulting firm
        !            23: called "The Root Group".  This version was later released under the
        !            24: GNU public license.
        !            25: 
        !            26: =head3 CU Sudo
        !            27: 
        !            28: In 1994, after maintaining sudo informally within CU-Boulder for
        !            29: some time, Todd C. Miller made a public release of "CU sudo" (version
        !            30: 1.3) with bug fixes and support for more operating systems.  The
        !            31: "CU" was added to differentiate it from the "official" version from
        !            32: "The Root Group".
        !            33: 
        !            34: In 1995, a new parser for the sudoers file was contributed by Chris
        !            35: Jepeway.  The new parser was a proper grammar (unlike the old one)
        !            36: and could work with both sudo and visudo (previously they had
        !            37: slightly different parsers).
        !            38: 
        !            39: In 1996, Todd, who had been maintaining sudo for several years in
        !            40: his spare time, moved distribution of sudo from a CU-Boulder ftp
        !            41: site to his domain, courtesan.com.
        !            42: 
        !            43: =head3 Just Plain Sudo
        !            44: 
        !            45: In 1999, the "CU" prefix was dropped from the name since there had
        !            46: been no formal release of sudo from "The Root Group" since 1991
        !            47: (the original authors now work elsewhere).  As of version 1.6, Sudo
        !            48: no longer contains any of the original "Root Group" code and is
        !            49: available under an ISC-style license.
        !            50: 
        !            51: In 2001, the sudo web site, ftp site and mailing lists were moved
        !            52: from courtesan.com to the sudo.ws domain (sudo.org was already
        !            53: taken).
        !            54: 
        !            55: =head3 LDAP Integration
        !            56: 
        !            57: In 2003, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company contributed code written
        !            58: by Aaron Spangler to store the sudoers data in LDAP.  These changes
        !            59: were incorporated into Sudo 1.6.8.
        !            60: 
        !            61: =head3 New Parser
        !            62: 
        !            63: In 2005, Todd rewrote the sudoers parser to better support the
        !            64: features that had been added in the past ten years.  This new parser
        !            65: removes some limitations of the previous one, removes ordering
        !            66: constraints and adds support for including multiple sudoers files.
        !            67: 
        !            68: =head3 Quest Sponsorship
        !            69: 
        !            70: In 2010, Quest Software began sponsoring Sudo development by hiring
        !            71: Todd to work on Sudo as part of his full-time job.
        !            72: 
        !            73: =head3 Present Day
        !            74: 
        !            75: Sudo, in its current form, is maintained by:
        !            76: 
        !            77:        Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
        !            78: 
        !            79: Todd continues to enhance sudo and fix bugs.