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1.1     ! millert     1: A Brief history of sudo(8):
        !             2:
        !             3: The sudo philosophy originated at SUNY-Buffalo in the early 1980's.
        !             4: In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder enhanced sudo and released it
        !             5: to the public.  For the next 5 years, sudo was fed and watered by
        !             6: a handful of folks at CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob
        !             7: Manchek, and Trent Hein.
        !             8:
        !             9: In 1991, Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma wrote a new version of sudo
        !            10: with an enhanced sudoers format.  This version was bought by a
        !            11: consulting firm called "The Root Group" and released under the GNU
        !            12: public license.
        !            13:
        !            14: In 1994, after maintaining sudo informally withing CU-Boulder for
        !            15: some time, Todd Miller made a public release of "CU sudo" (version
        !            16: 1.3) with bug fixes and support for more operating systems.  The
        !            17: "CU" was added to differentiate it from the "official" version from
        !            18: "The Root Group".
        !            19:
        !            20: In 1996, Todd, who had been maintaining sudo for several years in
        !            21: his spare time, brought sudo development under the umbrella of his
        !            22: consulting firm, Courtesan Consulting.  Courtesan remains committed
        !            23: to a free sudo and is sponsoring another sudo rewrite as well as
        !            24: continued development of the sudo 1.x code base.
        !            25:
        !            26: In 1999, the "CU" prefix was dropped from the name since there has
        !            27: been no formal release of sudo from "The Root Group" since 1991
        !            28: (the original authors now work elsewhere).  As of version 1.6, Sudo
        !            29: no longer contains any of the original "Root Group" code and is
        !            30: available with a BSD-style license.
        !            31:
        !            32: sudo, in its current form, is maintained by:
        !            33:
        !            34:        Todd Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
        !            35:
        !            36: Todd continues to enhance sudo and fix bugs.