=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/src/usr.bin/sudo/Attic/HISTORY,v retrieving revision 1.7 retrieving revision 1.8 diff -u -r1.7 -r1.8 --- src/usr.bin/sudo/Attic/HISTORY 2007/07/26 16:10:15 1.7 +++ src/usr.bin/sudo/Attic/HISTORY 2008/11/14 11:53:05 1.8 @@ -1,47 +1,49 @@ -A Brief history of sudo(8): +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 newsgroup -in December of 1985. +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 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 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 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 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 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 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 2004, Todd incorporated as GratiSoft, Inc. to provide commercial -support and enhancements to the sudo community. +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 2005, GratiSoft was put on hold. +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 Todd continues to enhance sudo and fix bugs. +