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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.
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.