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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:
1.2     ! millert    14: In 1994, after maintaining sudo informally within CU-Boulder for
1.1       millert    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.