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! A Brief history of sudo(8):
  
! Sudo was first conceived and implemented by Bob Coggeshall and Cliff
! Spencer around 1980 at the Department of Computer Science at
! SUNY/Buffalo.  It ran on a VAX-11/750 running 4.1BSD.  An updated
! version, credited to Phil Betchel, Cliff Spencer, Gretchen Phillips,
! John LoVerso and Don Gworek, was posted to the net.sources newsgroup
! in December of 1985.
  
! In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder released an enhanced version
! of sudo. For the next 5 years, sudo was fed and watered by a handful
! of folks at CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob Manchek, and
! Trent Hein.
  
! In 1991, Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma wrote a new version of sudo
! with an enhanced sudoers format under contract to a consulting firm
! called "The Root Group".  This version was later released under the
! GNU public license.
  
! In 1994, after maintaining sudo informally within CU-Boulder for
! some time, Todd Miller made a public release of "CU sudo" (version
! 1.3) with bug fixes and support for more operating systems.  The
! "CU" was added to differentiate it from the "official" version from
! "The Root Group".
  
! In 1996, Todd, who had been maintaining sudo for several years in
! his spare time, brought sudo development under the umbrella of his
! consulting firm, Courtesan Consulting.  Courtesan remains committed
! to a free sudo and is sponsoring another sudo rewrite as well as
! continued development of the sudo 1.x code base.
  
! In 1999, the "CU" prefix was dropped from the name since there has
! been no formal release of sudo from "The Root Group" since 1991
! (the original authors now work elsewhere).  As of version 1.6, Sudo
! no longer contains any of the original "Root Group" code and is
! available under an ISC-style license.
  
! In 2004, Todd incorporated as GratiSoft, Inc. to provide commercial
! support and enhancements to the sudo community.
  
! In 2005, GratiSoft was put on hold.
  
  sudo, in its current form, is maintained by:
  
! 	Todd Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
  
  Todd continues to enhance sudo and fix bugs.
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! A brief history of sudo:
  
! Sudo was first conceived and implemented by Bob Coggeshall and Cliff Spencer
! around 1980 at the Department of Computer Science at SUNY/Buffalo. It ran on
! a VAX-11/750 running 4.1BSD. An updated version, credited to Phil Betchel,
! Cliff Spencer, Gretchen Phillips, John LoVerso and Don Gworek, was posted to
! the net.sources Usenet newsgroup in December of 1985.
  
! In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder released an enhanced version of sudo.
! For the next 5 years, sudo was fed and watered by a handful of folks at
! CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob Manchek, and Trent Hein.
  
! In 1991, Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma wrote a new version of sudo with an
! enhanced sudoers format under contract to a consulting firm called "The Root
! Group". This version was later released under the GNU public license.
  
! In 1994, after maintaining sudo informally within CU-Boulder for some time,
! Todd Miller made a public release of "CU sudo" (version 1.3) with bug fixes
! and support for more operating systems. The "CU" was added to differentiate
! it from the "official" version from "The Root Group".
  
! In 1995, a new parser for the sudoers file was contributed by Chris Jepeway.
! The new parser was a proper grammar (unlike the old one) and could work with
! both sudo and visudo (previously they had slightly different parsers).
  
! In 1996, Todd, who had been maintaining sudo for several years in his spare
! time, moved distribution of sudo from a CU-Boulder ftp site to his domain,
! courtesan.com.
  
! In 1999, the "CU" prefix was dropped from the name since there has been no
! formal release of sudo from "The Root Group" since 1991 (the original
! authors now work elsewhere). As of version 1.6, Sudo no longer contains any
! of the original "Root Group" code and is available under an ISC-style
! license.
  
! In 2001, the sudo web site, ftp site and mailing lists were moved from
! courtesan.com to the sudo.ws domain (sudo.org was already taken).
  
+ In 2005, Todd rewrote the sudoers parser to better support the features that
+ had been added in the past ten years. This new parser removes some
+ limitations of the previous one, removes ordering constraints and adds
+ support for including multiple sudoers files.
+ 
  sudo, in its current form, is maintained by:
  
!         Todd Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
  
  Todd continues to enhance sudo and fix bugs.
+