Annotation of src/usr.bin/sudo/HISTORY, Revision 1.4
1.1 millert 1: A Brief history of sudo(8):
2:
3: The sudo philosophy originated at SUNY-Buffalo in the early 1980's.
1.4 ! millert 4: The first version of sudo was written there by Cliff Spencer in
! 5: 1983. An updated version, credited to Phil Betchel, Cliff Spencer,
! 6: Gretchen Phillips, John LoVerso and Don Gworek, was posted to the
! 7: net.sources newsgroup in December of 1985.
! 8:
! 9: In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder released and enhanced version
! 10: of sudo. For the next 5 years, sudo was fed and watered by a handful
! 11: of folks at CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob Manchek, and
! 12: Trent Hein.
1.1 millert 13:
14: In 1991, Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma wrote a new version of sudo
1.3 millert 15: with an enhanced sudoers format under contract to a consulting firm
16: called "The Root Group". This version was later released under the
17: GNU public license.
1.1 millert 18:
1.2 millert 19: In 1994, after maintaining sudo informally within CU-Boulder for
1.1 millert 20: some time, Todd Miller made a public release of "CU sudo" (version
21: 1.3) with bug fixes and support for more operating systems. The
22: "CU" was added to differentiate it from the "official" version from
23: "The Root Group".
24:
25: In 1996, Todd, who had been maintaining sudo for several years in
26: his spare time, brought sudo development under the umbrella of his
27: consulting firm, Courtesan Consulting. Courtesan remains committed
28: to a free sudo and is sponsoring another sudo rewrite as well as
29: continued development of the sudo 1.x code base.
30:
31: In 1999, the "CU" prefix was dropped from the name since there has
32: been no formal release of sudo from "The Root Group" since 1991
33: (the original authors now work elsewhere). As of version 1.6, Sudo
34: no longer contains any of the original "Root Group" code and is
35: available with a BSD-style license.
36:
37: sudo, in its current form, is maintained by:
38:
39: Todd Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
40:
41: Todd continues to enhance sudo and fix bugs.