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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.