Annotation of src/usr.bin/sudo/HISTORY, Revision 1.2.6.1
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
1.2.6.1 ! millert 10: with an enhanced sudoers format under contract to a consulting firm
! 11: called "The Root Group". This version was later released under the
! 12: GNU public license.
1.1 millert 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.