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A Brief history of sudo(8):

The sudo philosophy originated at SUNY-Buffalo in the early 1980's.

In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder enhanced sudo and released it

The first version of sudo was written there by Cliff Spencer in

to the public. For the next 5 years, sudo was fed and watered by

1983. An updated version, credited to Phil Betchel, Cliff Spencer,

a handful of folks at CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob

Gretchen Phillips, John LoVerso and Don Gworek, was posted to the

Manchek, and Trent Hein.

net.sources newsgroup in December of 1985.

In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder released and 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