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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.
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